| 单词 | white tape |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhite tape 3. slang. Spirituous liquor, esp. gin ( white tape); red tape, brandy. Cf. ribbon n. 4b. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > [noun] water of life?c1450 burning watera1475 watera1475 aqua vitae1542 spirit1559 strong water1615 hot waters1616 spirituous liquor1659 spirit1663 fire1707 tape1725 strunt1786 hard stuff1789 firewater1799 fool's water1815 fool water1837 spirituous liquor1842 timber-doodle1842 lightning1858 1725 New Canting Dict. Tape, Red or White, Geneva, Aniseed, Clove-Water, &c. so called by Canters and Villains, and the Renters of the Tap..in Newgate, and other Prisons. 1755 Connoisseur No. 53. ⁋4 Every night-cellar [will] furnish you with Holland Tape, three yards a penny. 1830 E. Bulwer-Lytton Paul Clifford I. x. 222 Red tape those as likes it may drain. 1843 W. M. Thackeray Ravenswing vi, in Fraser's Mag. Aug. 205/2 Gin.., under the name of ‘tape’ used to be measured out pretty liberally in what was..her Majesty's prison of the Fleet. < as lemmas |
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