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sneaky Pete
noun- any potent, potentially fatal, alcoholic concoction, favoured by those whose need outweighs their ability to pay US
- Pass me the sneakypete, Muckleroy. — Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, p. 490, 1947
- Down by the river there was some bums that hung around a fire and drank Sneaky Pete all day and sometimes cooked something like stew in a can. — Hal Ellson, Duke, p. 151, 1949
- You give off a lungful of Sneaky Pete yaself; I sniffed you out, brother. — George Mandel, Flee the Angry Strangers, p. 60, 1952
- They drink wine–sneaky pete, so called because it sneaks up behind and hits you when you don’t expect it. — Harrison E. Salisbury, The Shook-up Generation, p. 33, 1958
- So drink your Sneaky Pete and then hit the street cause I’m cool like the dawn and really gone! — Dan Burley, Diggeth Thou?, p. 45, 1959
- He drank quarts of it a day. Any kind. Gallo, sneaky pete, the distillation of canned heat. — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 238, 1961
- Maybe I should make it down to the Bowery, I thought, and lap up some sneaky pete with the rest of the bums. — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 95, 1967
- marijuana mixed in wine US
- — American Speech, p. 88, May 1955: “Narcotic argot along the Mexican border”
- a member of a US Army long-range reconnaissance patrol unit US, 1990
- The Special Forces assigned to them -called “Sneaky Petes” in Army argot—are superbly trained, dedicated, and they fight like lions under attack. — Elaine Shepard, The Doom Pussy, p. 62, 1967
- — Gregory Clark, Words of the Vietnam War, p. 424, 1990
- an unannounced in-flight examination by a crew that boards the plane just before take-off US
- — American Speech, p. 120, May 1963: “Air refueling words”
- in pool, an expert player’s custom cue, designed to look like an ordinary cue US
- — Mike Shamos, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Billiards, p. 217, 1993
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