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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A cant name for gin, rum, etc., especially when bad.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Low-end gin, usually home-made.
  2. n. Complete and utter ruin, desolation.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. [Eng. Slang] utter ruin; also, gin.

Examples

  • “$25,000,000 a day to keep this march going over dead Germans; then comes a telegram predicting blue ruin for American importers and a cheerless Christmas for American children if a cargo of German toys be not quickly released at Rotterdam, and I dimly recall the benevolent unction with which American children last Christmas sent”

    The Life and Letters of Walter H Page

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  • bilby MissA, is there an implication that it might be moonshine? Jul 16, 2008

  • missanthropist Inferior alcohol, especially gin.
    Also, a catastrophe, complete ruin, disaster, disgrace.

    slang c. 1920 Jul 15, 2008

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