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rotgut

noun

  1. concentrated alcohol from a still or other dubious source
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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: From rot + gut.

  1. Raw or poor-quality alcoholic liquor.

    “Near-synonym: red-eye”

    “Then the harpooner carried away a pink flask to be filled in some blind pig, for there were no licensed saloons in that locality. We drank the cheap rotgut out of tumblers.”