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dago red
noun
inexpensive, inferior red wine US, 1906- — Vincent J. Monteleone, Criminal Slang, p. 65, 1949
- He used to arrive about six in the evening, loaded with chickens from the rotisserie and bottles of Dago red. — Polly Adler, A House is Not a Home, p. 42, 1953
- They were sitting around drinking dago red and Lovis asked where his folks came from. — Bernard Wolfe, The Late Risers, p. 183, 1954
- They entered the back door of the Gambino’s frame house on East 93rd Street, interrupting a heated conversation in the kitchen between Frank’s father and a half dozen other rather threatening Italians drinking dago red out of jelly glasses. — Brian Boyer, Prince of Thieves, p. 18, 1975
- “You’re real smooth and sophisticated,” Buster said to his partner. Like dago red in a fruit jar.” — Joseph Wambaugh, The Golden Orange, p. 176, 1990
- I mean, around here a cultured person is one that don’t drink dago red from a jar. — Joseph Wambaugh, Finnegan’s Week, p. 9, 1993
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