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name one's poison

verb

Etymology

From the US prohibition era, when the government required that the base ingredients for many products have poisons added to them to make it harder for them to be distilled into alcohol. As a result, much of the prohibition alcohol was actually poison when not distilled completely or properly.

Definitions

  1. To indicate what type of alcoholic beverage one wishes to be served.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for name one's poison. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA