firewater
Noun
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Noun
firewater
- (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.
- 2012, Tom Lamont, How Mumford & Sons became the biggest band in the world (in The Daily Telegraph, 15 November 2012)
- High-temperature hydraulic condensate discharged from industrial boilers.
- (manufacturing) Water for use in firefighting.
- German: Feuerwasser
- French: eau d'extinction
- German: Löschwasser
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