rubbing alcohol
a poisonous solution of about 70 percent isopropyl or denatured ethyl alcohol, usually containing a perfume oil, used chiefly in massaging.
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One of the boys, a stocky ruddy-faced blond teen, vanished after he and Middleton got drunk on rubbing alcohol.
The Bone Collectors Get to Work at Florida’s Dozier School | Christine Pelisek | September 6, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd a rubbing alcohol/lavender oil mix works only as a short-term defense to buy time until the exterminator comes.
Strategies run the gamut from freezing everything you own to lathering your body in a mix of rubbing alcohol and lavender oil.
British Dictionary definitions for rubbing alcohol
a liquid usually consisting of 70 per cent denatured ethyl alcohol, used by external application as an antiseptic or rubefacient
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