Meaning of private stock | Babel Free

Definitions

A supply of something, especially alcoholic beverages, belonging to a person or a commercial establishment and of such quality that it is usually reserved for the owner or for favoured friends or customers.

uncountable, usually

Examples

“[T]o feed 126 souls, we had but . . . Three ham-sandwiches, and a pot of currant-jelly, and 197 bottles of brandy, rum, madeira, pale ale (my private stock) . . .”

“The refreshment was brought in, and before the session adjourned, they had lowered the contents of a black bottle of private stock by several fingers.”

“"And after all I've done for her," said Mr. Reginald Cracknell, his voice tremulous with self-pity and his eyes moist with the combined effects of anguish and over-indulgence in his celebrated private stock, "after all I've done for her she throws me down."”

“And it is heartening to be able to find a good and heady mutton chop to accompany a club member's claret from his private stock.”

“2004, Robert Priest, How to Swallow a Pig, →ISBN, (Google preivew)" Then he takes out a bottle of his own private stock, finds himself a flower or some butterflies, and proceeds to get very drunk.”

“Booker employed his private stock as a late afternoon delight for visitors to the Boston distillery.”

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