单词 | phlegm-cutter |
释义 | > as lemmasphlegm-cutter phlegm-cutter n. a strong alcoholic beverage, typically one drunk in the morning. ΚΠ 1806 Balance 13 May 146/3 I have heard of a jarum, of phlegm-cutter and fog driver. 1892 ‘Mrs A. Macleod’ Silent Sea in C. Martin Silent Sea ii. 151 A customer who had dropped in for an early ‘phlegm-cutter’. 1931 U. Sinclair Wet Parade xv. 337 Substances carefully specified in the Volstead act..included booze and hooch, moonshine and applejack, red-eye and rot-gut, com-juice and forty-rod, eye-opener, phlegmcutter and corpse-reviver, to say nothing of highballs and cocktails. 2001 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 13 Aug. 17 I had to repair straight to the nearest pub for a steadying phlegm-cutter. < as lemmas |
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