Meaning of bathtub gin | Babel Free

Definitions

Gin or a similar alcoholic beverage which is of very poor quality, as if made by a homebrewer in a bathtub.

colloquial, countable, uncountable

Examples

“Near-synonyms: rotgut, gut rot, hooch, swill, red-eye, moonshine”

“Part of Dallman's "Three Blind Mice" parody follows: / They called us donkey-braying cranks / But all they gave to win our thanks / Was bathtub gin and busted banks / For twelve long years.”

“A 1976 Broadway hit, "Bubbling Brown Sugar" recreates the night life of the 1920s - when they drank "scotch in teacups" and bathtub gin.”

“And Wendy's on the windowsill / Waitin' to be let in / And we're all in the bathtub now / Making bathtub gin”

“It wasn't just the violent Prohibition-era gang wars that were dangerous to Americans drinking homemade moonshine and bathtub gin.”

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