grog
a mixture of rum and water, often flavored with lemon, sugar, and spices and sometimes served hot.
any strong alcoholic drink.
fired and crushed clay.
Origin of grog
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How to use grog in a sentence
Herschbach recalls attending one party with a fire blazing in a courtyard and plenty of grog to go round.
A good dinner solves many a difficulty, whilst the post-prandial cigar and a glass of grog, like faith, removes mountains.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowIt fully explained his eccentricities, John reflected sagely, as he mixed himself a grog.
Tales and Fantasies | Robert Louis StevensonWhy, then, what I have to propose will be nothing to a man like you—you found the beef wholesome, and the grog mellow!
The Pilot | J. Fenimore CooperHe had been drinking much grog and his face was flushed and angry.
I am neither a drinker of grog nor a gambler, and have suffered from him what I would suffer from no other man.
British Dictionary definitions for grog
/ (ɡrɒɡ) /
diluted spirit, usually rum, as an alcoholic drink
informal, mainly Australian and NZ alcoholic drink in general, esp spirits
Origin of grog
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