popskulln.
/ˈpɒpskʌl/, U.S. /ˈpɑpˌskəl/ North American slang.
A powerful, harsh, or low quality (esp. home-made) alcoholic drink; inferior whisky. Also attributive, as popskull vodka, popskull whisky, etc.
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popskull1865
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1865 Republican Banner (Nashville, Tennessee) 28 Sept. 3/2 Under the divine aflatus [sic] of pop-skull there was such an awakening in that quarter as was never heard before.
1867 G. 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.
1932 V. Randolph in B. A. Botkin Folk-Say IV. 237 He died from drinking too much popskull whisky.
1956 Wall St. Jrnl. 21 Sept. 1/1 About one out of every four gallons of hard liquor..was moonshine—also known by devotees as corn squeezins, white lightning, popskull, bumblebee stew and mountain dew.
1984 S. King Thinner (1985) xvii. 163 Taduz Lemke reminded him of those old men in the Danone yogurt commercial..who smoke unfiltered cigarettes, drank popskull vodka.
1999 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 29 May e4 A guy with a paycheque in his pocket, a bottle of homebrewed popskull under the driver's seat and a date with a girl named Mabel.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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