tonsil varnish

tonsil varnish

dated slang Liquor, especially cheap whiskey. The hard-boiled detective sat sipping tonsil varnish at the seedy dive bar, waiting for his informant to arrive. Give the man some tonsil varnish to deaden the pain till a doctor can be fetched.
See also: tonsil, varnish
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

tonsil varnish

verb
See tonsil paint
See also: tonsil, varnish
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • tonsil paint
  • tonsil bath
  • stogy
  • stogie
  • stog
  • woofle-water
  • wozzle
  • wozzle-water
  • schoolboy scotch
  • neck oil