white lady
Britishnoun
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a cocktail consisting of gin, Cointreau, and lemon juice
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informal methylated spirits as a drink, sometimes mixed with shoe polish or other additives
Example Sentences
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He no doubt hoped that this lust would be satiated when the FBI arrested a substitute older white lady, Judge Hannah Dugan of Wisconsin, on iffy-sounding charges of "obstruction."
From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2025
She instilled that in me, which is weird because my mum is a white lady from Lowestoft, Suffolk.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2022
“You think every white lady is me,” she tells him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2022
This is especially true once Malcolm seizes on a critic he calls “the white lady from the Los Angeles Times” who, to him, epitomizes what’s wrong in film criticism.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 3, 2021
But they’d had to skip most of her chosen sites because G’ma is a white lady but “your G’pop was a Negro, as we used to say back then.”
From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone
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