salty dog

American  

noun

1. a cocktail of gin or vodka and grapefruit juice, traditionally served in a salt-rimmed glass.

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Example Sentences

They reassure her that he was “a salty dog but a good egg,” adding, “What you saw was what you got.”

From New York Times • May 21, 2023

Dafoe is Thomas Wake, a crusty and tyrannical salty dog and the possessive “keeper of the light,” and Pattinson is his new and progressively frustrated and unhinged assistant, Efraim Winslow.

From Washington Times • Oct. 24, 2019

I want a salty dog, a salty cat, a salty life.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 13, 2018

There, a salty dog interior lined with puffer fish lamps beckoned, as did a round of margaritas and a pot of steamed clams.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2016

“It’s not just angry newbies, and it’s not just an angry salty dog who’s not getting love anymore,” Jafar says, invoking himself and business partner Michael Martensen, both millennials, and the 60-something Wynne.

From Washington Post