Meaning of Southern Comfort | Babel Free

Definitions

An American fruit-flavored whiskey liqueur, created in New Orleans in 1874, which is caramel in color.

Examples

“A word of warning: Sugar's expert terrain is like a shot of Southern Comfort — it's gulped quickly and burns on the way down. At Beech, on the other hand, the hard stuff is mellowed into a longer drink. Did I ski Big Boulder? No way.”

“What was a knockout, whose sweet-hot drawl hit him like Southern Comfort on an empty belly, doing digging up dirt in a greenhouse in the middle of nowhere? Business, Eric reminded himself, realizing he stared. You're here on business.”

“I paused and let the surrounding environment soak into me like the anticipation of a strong shot off Southern Comfort. You know the way your body stops pumping blood while it waits for that warming pulse to shake through every cell[…]”

“On the sultry, over-amped "Leeds United," she [Amanda Palmer] intones over a slurred, high-stepping horn section: "Who needs love / When there's Southern Comfort?" On this Method-acted album, that's a rhetorical question.”

“The compliment spread through me like a shot of Southern Comfort, warming my insides. “But you don't care about that, do you?” he continued. “You only have eyes for Jack.””

“[...] and suddenly they were kissing, really snogging, and her tongue slid into his mouth like a shot of Southern Comfort, and it was happening,[…]”

“In Tessa's case, both were the color of Southern Comfort.”

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