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ˈpopskull N. Amer. slang.
[f. pop v.1 + skull1.]
A powerful or unwholesome (esp. home-made) liquor; inferior whisky. Also attrib.
1867G. W. Harris Sut Lovingood 222 Well, Maje cum blowin mad intu the doggery, an seein nobody, he jis' grabbed a bottel, an' tuck hisself a buckload ove popskull. 1917Dialect Notes IV. 415 Pop-skull, bad whiskey. 1932V. Randolph in B. A. Botkin Folk-Say IV. 237 He died from drinking too much popskull whisky. 1946Amer. Speech XXI. 195 Distillers never refer to a still coil as a ‘worm’, as did the bootleggers who manufactured popskull and rotgut during Prohibition. 1950Amer. Legion Mag. Apr. 19/1 Although much of the ‘panther sweat’ or ‘popskull scotch’ brewed today is distributed to customers who know it's moonshine and don't care, thousands of gallons are sold..to unsuspecting customers. 1956Wall St. Jrnl. 21 Sept. 1/1 About one out of every four gallons of hard liquor..was moon⁓shine—also known by devotees as corn squeezins, white lightning, popskull, bumblebee stew and mountain dew. 1973B. Broadfoot Ten Lost Years xxiv. 286 Old pop skull, the kind we made by freezing a milk pail of cider and when the..alcohol had collected in the middle of the ice block, then we drained that off. |