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rub of the brush
noun
a beverage made from the remnants of drinks in a bar US- Each got a tin-cup of this. It was called “a rub of the brush,” because that was how it felt going down. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Chicago Confidential, p. 54, 1950
- After this rude awakening, the guest was sent out into the cold after a “rub of the brush”—a tin cup full of a mixture drawn from a slop pail in which the dregs from beer, wine, whiskey, and gin glasses had been emptied the night before[.] — Alson Smith, Syndicate City, p. 219, 1954
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