rotgut

See also: rot gut

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Etymology

From rot +‎ gut.

Noun

rotgut (usually uncountable, plural rotguts)

  1. Raw or poor-quality alcoholic liquor.
    Synonyms: gut rot, hooch, swill
    • 1913 August, Jack London, chapter VI, in John Barleycorn, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 48:
      Then the harpooner carried away a pink flask to be filled in some blind pig, for there were no licensed saloons in that locality. We drank the cheap rotgut out of tumblers.

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