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jungle juice
noun- alcoholic drink AUSTRALIA, 1942
- He was [...] chain-smoking and sipping a tumbler of the cheapest Empire port, the kind that is known as Jungle Juice. — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 91, 1956
- any improvised alcoholic beverage US, 1947
- At any given time there were apt to be brewing on the ship fifteen different batches of jungle juice, but it was agreed that Olson made the most distinctive brand. — Thomas Heggen, Mister Roberts, p. 31, 1946
- — American Speech, p. 55, February 1947: “Pacific War language”
- “Is it real whisky or is it jungle juice?” — Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead, p. 204, 1948
- illicit alcoholic liquor brewed by soldiers in the tropics AUSTRALIA, 1942
Used by World War 2 military. - Come on, you big ape–put that bloody jungle juice away. — Sumner Locke Elliott, Rusty Bugles, p. 55, 1948
- — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 51, 1977
- in prison, serious talk about serious situations US
- — Charles Shafer, Folk Speech in Texas Prisons, p. 208, 1990
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