squirrel whiskey

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. High-proof, low-quality whiskey, generally produced illegally. Canada,US,obsolete,slang,uncountable
    — […] he slept of[f] his load of squirrel whiskey and went home forgetting a duty for which he was discharged.

词源

According to a widely repeated jocular explanation, “it [makes] those who [drink] it inclined to climb a tree,”; but the term is more plausibly explained by the fact that “squirrels were often drowned in the open-air mash-tubs used by moonshiners” and/or that the liquor was aged “by tying the keg in a tall pine tree”.
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