Liquor made from whatever ingredients were available; improvised alcoholic military drink
[WWII armed forces; fr the fact that torpedoes were fueled with very pure grain alcohol, and juice commonly means ''fuel'']
The Dictionary of American Slang, Fourth Edition by Barbara Ann Kipfer, PhD. and Robert L. Chapman, Ph.D. Copyright (C) 2007 by HarperCollins Publishers. Cite This Source
