torpedo juice

torpedo juice

A low-quality alcoholic beverage made by soldiers during World War II. Grain alcohol was extracted from torpedoes (among other things), hence the expression. I can't drink any more of this torpedo juice, it's disgusting!
See also: juice, torpedo
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • belt a drink down
  • bathtub gin
  • gin
  • be not up to much
  • not up to much
  • boozehound
  • a stiff drink
  • sneaky
  • sneaky Pete
  • gargle
References in periodicals archive
Guides tell about sailors making torpedo juice, an alcoholic brew distilled from non-lethal fuels available onboard (the museum sells a non-alcoholic version in the gift shop).
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If you're a fan of Florida crime fiction, don't miss this chance to hang and drink with the likes of Jonathan King, Edgaraward-winning author of A Killing Night, Tom Corcoran (the Alex Rutledge mysteries), Don Bruns (Barbados Heat, Jamaica Blue) James Swain (the Tony Valentine novels), Tim Dorsey (Torpedo Juice, Stingray Shuffle), Jeff Lindsay (Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Dearly Devoted Dexter); Barbara Parker (Suspicion of Rage, Suspicion of Innocence), Les Standiford (Raw Deal, Bone Key), Diane Vogt (the Judge Wilhemina Carson Series) and Leslie Glass (the April Woo suspense novels).
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Storms, the hero of Tim Dorsey's new novel Torpedo Juice. And although Tim doesn't live in Sarasota (he lives in Tampa) he's a contributing editor at this very magazine, and would be the first to admit that we gave him his start, allowing him to observe our office politics and thus gather material for his fast-paced tomes of greed, betrayal, sex, lust, passion, drugs, gambling, infidelity, crime--and that's just the sales department.
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