Meaning of rotgut | Babel Free

Definitions

Raw or poor-quality alcoholic liquor.

slang, uncountable, usually

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Examples

“Near-synonym: red-eye”

“Then the harpooner carried away a pink flask to be filled in some blind pig, for there were no licensed saloons in that locality. We drank the cheap rotgut out of tumblers.”

“His mother, Dorothy, hung around longer, long enough for her to choke on her own vomit. She had that taste—rotgut, the rougher the better.”

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