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tanglefoot
noun- strong, homemade whisky US, 1860
- Well, I slurped up another sample or two of the tanglefoot while I was about it – then I decided I’d better take some back home for home consumption, in case I felt a cold coming on[.] — Guy Owen, The Flim-Flam Man and the Apprentice Grifter, p. 41, 1972
- barbed wire staked to the ground as a defensive perimeter around a military camp or base US
- — Gregory Clark, Words of the Vietnam War, p. 502, 1990
- a clumsy, awkward person US
- “What’s the matter with that tanglefoot?” “I tripped and—” — Audie Murphy, To Hell and Back, p. 269, 1949
- The other two walls were bordered by a moat filled with barbed wire “Tanglefoot” and punji stakes[.] — David Donovan, Once a Warrior King, p. 40, 1985
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