Firewater

Quick meaning: Firewater is a noun meaning (informal) High-proof alcoholic beverage, especially whiskey (especially in the context of its sale to or consumption by Native Americans).

Meaning

(informal) High-proof alcoholic beverage, especially whiskey (especially in the context of its sale to or consumption by Native Americans).

More Meanings

1. (especially manufacturing) Water for use in firefighting.
2. High-temperature hydraulic condensate discharged from industrial boilers.
3. (obsolete) Synonym of alkahest.

Example Sentences

A continuously circulated firewater line supplies a deluge cooling system in each gathering center for fire containment.

Four polite Englishmen in their middle 20s, feigning like firewater drunks in a Eugene O'Neill play: it's exactly the stuff that makes their detractors groan.

High Jack had been drinking too much rum ever since we landed in Boca. You know how an Indian is—the palefaces fixed his clock when they introduced him to firewater.

A break in a firewater line at BP Whiting Refinery caused water with an oil-like sheen to spread outside the refinery's walls along a section of Indianapolis Boulevard Tuesday night.

Word Forms

• firewaters

Synonyms for firewater

Depending on context, synonyms include alcohol, bevvy, booze, carouse, drink, fuddling.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include whiskey, firewagon, firecan, fustian, firehose, firebare.

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