rotgut
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of rotgut
Example Sentences
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But I prefer to believe that arrack is simply the sound one makes when one chokes down a shot of harsh home-brewed rotgut, and therefore it applies to any ingredients equally well.
From Seattle Times
They ranged from rotgut to the more refined.
From Seattle Times
Maybe the same stuff with which the bartenders are spiking the rotgut in George C. Wolfe’s current Broadway revival of “The Iceman Cometh,” another lugubrious O’Neill masterpiece.
From New York Times
Sushi Nakazawa does not offer hot sake, apparently for the same reason the bar at the Pierre hotel does not offer “rotgut.”
From Washington Post
Wouldn't some sort of rotgut - attractively labeled of course - fermented from starchy food scraps be a more lucrative enterprise than a...
From New York Times
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