Rotgut

Quick meaning: Rotgut is a noun meaning (slang) Raw or poor-quality alcoholic liquor.

Meaning

(slang) Raw or poor-quality alcoholic liquor.

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: red-eye

His mother, Dorothy, hung around longer, long enough for her to choke on her own vomit. She had that taste—rotgut, the rougher the better.

Then the harpooner carried away a pink flask to be filled in some blind pig, for there were no licensed saloons in that locality. We drank the cheap rotgut out of tumblers.

Word Forms

• rotguts
• rot gut

Synonyms for rotgut

Depending on context, synonyms include firewater, hooch, moonshine, poteen, swill, red-eye.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rumbo, rosoglio, rumbooze, rusot, rohob, rumshop.

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