rotgut

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'He has a place down here in a top loft, and has got two hundred and fifty barrels of "rotgut" whiskey.

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  1. noun Slang Raw, inferior liquor.

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  • `He has a place down here in a top loft, and has got two hundred and fifty barrels of "rotgut" whiskey. —  Edison, His Life and Inventions
  • Into the drink went a jig, sweeps, cask of pollocks, three-quarters empty bottle of rotgut, and a cock-eyed Blinky. —  F ;SF - vol 105 issue 01 - July 2003
  • The Widow Cobb picked up his bottle of rotgut, sniffed it, and poured it out on the floor. —  F ;SF - vol 105 issue 01 - July 2003
  • It is a kind of rotgut moonshine popular in that area. —  Destroyer 106: White Water
  • You're sick because you've been eating all this rotgut we've been warning you against for 30 years. —  Latest Articles
 

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/ˈrɑtgət/
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