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firewater
noun- strong alcohol US, 1817
A term associated with Native Americans, often pronounced with an ambiguous accent approximating an accent used by Indian actors in old cowboy films. - If you can’t do without your firewater, consult the ticket agent before boarding the train. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 198, 1948
- [Y]ou’ve been shooting it out with cattle rustlers and train robbers who have been dynamiting the new railroad trestles and selling firewater to the Injuns. — Bernard Wolfe, The Late Risers, p. 163, 1954
- “This fire water is not his usual beverage.” — Frederick Kohner, Gidget Goes Hawaiian, p. 59, 1961
- Will you just look at the Big chief slug down on that firewater! — Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, p. 227, 1962
- Firewater brings out the real browness of this buffalo. — Oscar Zeta Acosta, The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo, p. 36, 1972
- Firewater, Tonto? Is that what you... — 48 Hours, 1982
- I got to leave that firewater alone, and just stick with reefer. — Odie Hawkins, Men Friends, p. 145, 1989
- GBL, a drug that is nearly identical in molecular structure to the recreational drug GHB US
- Another case involved a 14-year-old Bernalillo County boy whose heart rate slowed after drinking bright red “Firewater.” — Santa Fe New Mexican, p. A1, 29 January 1999
- — Sky Magazine, July 2001
- spruce beer, and also, phosphorescence in salt water CANADA
- When fishing for albacore or tuna, at night, when there is a glow of phosphorescence about the moving fish, the men call it firewater. — Helen Creighton, Lunenburg County, p. 110, 1950
- Some made moccasins and snowshoes, others spruce beer, the original firewater. — Canada Month, p. 27/3, January 1962
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