firewater
Noun

firewater

  1. (informal) High-proof alcohol, especially whiskey (especially in the context of its sale to or consumption by Native Americans).
    • 2012, Tom Lamont, How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world (in The Daily Telegraph, 15 November 2012)
      Four polite Englishmen in their middle 20s, feigning like firewater drunks in a Eugene O'Neill play: it's exactly the stuff that makes their detractors groan.
  2. High-temperature hydraulic condensate discharged from industrial boilers.
  3. (manufacturing) Water for use in firefighting.
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