bourbon

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  1. noun A whiskey distilled from a fermented mash containing not less than 51 percent corn in addition to malt and rye.

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  • Or perhaps the bourbon was outlawed, given that half the people on the floor could lose all twelve steps if they knew a fifth was in room 221. —  Lippman, Laura - [Tess Monaghan 01] - Baltimore Blues
  • A sparse mouthful of bourbon, then she looked at the clock. —  The Coffin Dancer
  • He squinted hard and studied what sat beside him on the coffee table: half a bottle of Wild Turkey bourbon, an overflowing ashtray, and a bag of popcorn with a bunch of unpopped old maids inside; the micro-wave was on its way out. —  EQMM,August2007
  • The autobar served home-brewed bourbon, and hologram hookers took the customers into chat rooms for ultrasafe sex --with everything from orchestrated accompaniment to 3V barnyard animals. —  F ;SF; - vol 098 issue 05 - May 2000
  • As I followed I looked forward to a jolt of bourbon, either Burnside's bourbon or mine. —  F ;SF; - vol 091 issue 01 - July 1996
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  1. After Bourbon County in northeast Kentucky.
 

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