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depth charge
noun- a shot of whisky served in a glass of beer US, 1956
- [A] “Coalminer’s Breakfast,” or “Depth Charge” (when a shot of whiskey is dropped into a glass of beer. — Roger E. Axtell, The Do’s and Taboos of Hosting International Visitors, p. 76, 1990
- a fig or a prune UK, 1943
Of Royal Navy and Royal Air Force origins; comparing an explosion in the deep, which is in the power of such military hardware, to the laxative effect of the fruits. - any food that is heavy or stodgy UK, 1950
From the effects on your lower depths; originally recorded in prison use by Paul Tempest, Lag’s Lexicon, 1950, who offers “dumplings” as an example. Soon in wider use.
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