(Canada, US, slang, obsolete) High-proof, low-quality whiskey, generally produced illegally.
(Canada, US, slang, obsolete) High-proof, low-quality whiskey, generally produced illegally.
He left the yard and went down past the station, cutting across the tracks north of the water-tower, intending to drink squirrel whiskey in Luke Horton’s flour and feed store at the end of Main Street.
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An informal and affectionate American slang term for whiskey, particularly corn whiskey or bourbon, which is distilled from a fermented mash of corn. The phrase has a folksy, rural quality that evokes moonshine country, front-porch drinking, and Southern Americana. It functions as a gentle euphemism — one that makes a hard spirit sound almost wholesome and agricultural. Still used today in casual conversation and on craft distillery merchandise.