Grog

/ɡɹɒɡ/ · noun

Meaning

An alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy..

Definitions by Sense

1. An alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy.
2. (by extension, Australia, New Zealand) Any alcoholic beverage.
3. (countable, Australia, New Zealand) A glass or serving of an alcoholic beverage.
4. (ceramics) A type of pre-fired clay that has been ground and screened to a specific particle size.
5. (transitive, ceramics) To grind and screen (clay) to a specific particle size.
6. (intransitive, slang) To drink alcohol.

Example Sentences

[…] giving him a calebash, and the best part of a bottle of my rum, I desired him to run to the creek, and make me some grog, and this he did; but the poor fellow, never having made grog before, poured in all the spirits and but very little water, doubtless thinking, that the stronger it was the better; which beverage I swallowed to the bottom, without taking time to taste it, and I became instantly so much intoxicated that I could hardly keep my feet.

I quite understood their drift, and after a stiff glass of grog, or rather more of the same, and with each a sovereign in hand, they made light of the attack, and swore they would encounter a worse madman any day for the pleasure of meeting so 'bloomin' good a bloke' as your correspondent.

1950, Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice [The Legacy], New York: William Morrow, Chapter 5, p. 138, Joe […] told them how he had been nailed up to be beaten, and they shouted another grog for him.

[…] a practice of “equal surrender.” This evocative phrase comes from Basil Sansom's ethnography […] of grogging sessions among Aboriginal communities in Darwin. Sansom argues that this style of communal drinking […]

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• grogs
• grogging
• grogged

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