Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Strong liquor, especially whiskey.
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- noun High proof
alcohol , especiallywhiskey (especially in the context of its sale to or consumption by Native Americans). - noun High temperature hydraulic condensate discharged from industrial boilers.
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- noun any strong spirits (such as strong whisky or rum)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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They bring out the aguardiente, the firewater, which is about eighty percent pure alcohol.
Learning to Die in Miami Carlos Eire 2010
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In fact, it's an aguardiente, or "firewater" liquor between between 30 and 60% alcohol content.
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Monnet was a lapsed Catholic who married a divorcee - with a somewhat shady past which included selling, illegally, "firewater" to Canadian Indians.
Lettuce pray Richard 2004
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But what kind of firewater is that, my dear, if you can drink it?
Hard to be a god Strugatski, Arkadi & Strugatski, Boris 1973
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At least, the aboriginal races do not resist well the epidemics introduced by the whites; and many tribes have been exterminated by the effects of the 'firewater' and the vicious habits brought in by more civilised men.
From Slave to College President Being the Life Story of Booker T. Washington
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Who makes the "firewater," and who supplies the untutored savage with the means of intoxication?
A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America
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They commenced supplying them with "firewater," thus attacking them in a weak point.
The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself de Witt C. Peters
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A loquacious Indian, after being generously dosed with "firewater," had told them of a lonely unknown place in the wilderness, where the ground was literally strewn with gold.
The Easiest Way A Story of Metropolitan Life Eugene Walter 1907
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There are very few red men who will not steal; and they are so fond of "firewater," or intoxicating drink, that they are likely to commit worse crimes.
The Story of Red Feather A Tale of the American Frontier Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878
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He was fond of "firewater," was an inveterate thief, sullen and revengeful, quarrelsome at all times; and, when under the influence of drink, was feared almost as much by his own people as by the whites.
The Story of Red Feather A Tale of the American Frontier Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878
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i thought it was smoke!
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*plays famous riff from Smoke on the Water*
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