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canned heat
noun
a gel formed with liquid ethanol and saturated calcium acetate solution; when ignited, the alcohol in the gel burns US
Used as a source of fuel in portable cooking stoves and as a source of alcohol by truly desperate derelicts.- Dope is sold everywhere, as are denatured alcohol, bay rum, canned heat, fermented cider and anything else that will produce a jag. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Chicago Confidential, p. 60, 1950
- I was one of them, a guy who could talk knowingly of Four-Trey Whitey and the Half-a-Half Pint Kid, who knew how to filter canned heat through a handkerchief and rubbing alcohol through dry bread[.] — Jim Thompson, Roughneck, p. 65, 1954
- They are drinking Victory Punch, compounded of paregoric, Spanish Fly, heavy black rum, Napoleon brandy and canned heat. — William Burroughs, Naked Lunch, p. 135, 1957
- He drank quarts of it a day. Any kind. Gallo, sneaky pete, the distillation of canned heat. — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 238, 1961
- And the wino cringes from the canned-heat binges / And finds his grave in the snow. — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 80, 1976
- — Joe McKennon, Circus Lingo, p. 23, 1980
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