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tincture noun- an alcoholic drink UK
Popularised, if not inspired by the “Dear Bill” letters in Private Eye. - He’d be sparko after his usual lunchtime tincture. — Sunday Times, 8 June 1980
- a light drug in liquid form UK
A jocular euphemism. - — Jenny Fabian and Johnny Byrne, Groupie, 1968
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