rotgut
Low-grade moonshine
Rotgut is cheap, low-quality liquor—the kind that burns going down and leaves you feeling wrecked: We drank rotgut whiskey in the back of his truck.
The word suggests alcohol so harsh it might rot your insides.
It can apply to any poorly made or adulterated spirit.
Oak-aged grain spirit
- boozeInformal term for spirits
- liquorDistilled alcoholic drink
- spiritsLiquor or apparitions
- alcoholIntoxicating hydroxyl compound
firewater · hooch · moonshine · tipsy · drunk · hammered · plastered · wasted
Illegally distilled spirits
- bootlegIllegally produced goods
- speakeasyIllicit liquor establishment
- prohibitionAuthoritative legal ban
- smuggledMoved goods illegally
contraband · black-market · unlicensed · back-alley · rum-running · hooch · poteen · homebrew
whiskey
Oak-aged grain spirit
alcohol · firewater · hooch · moonshine · tipsy · drunk · hammered · plastered · wasted · sloshed
moonshine
Illegally distilled spirits
- bootlegIllegally produced goods
- speakeasyIllicit liquor establishment
- prohibitionAuthoritative legal ban
smuggled · contraband · black-market · unlicensed · back-alley · rum-running · hooch · poteen · homebrew · still
low-grade
Of poor quality
substandard · second-rate · shoddy · generic · budget · cut-rate · swill · plonk · bathtub · homemade
toxic
Capable of causing harm
lethal · methanol · blindness · adulterated · contaminated · impure · tainted · noxious · corrosive · burning
- ProhibitionProhibition, speakeasies, bootlegger, bootleggers, speakeasy
- saloonsbarroom, bartender, barstool, swinging doors, whiskey
- cheap drinkscheap vodka, bottom shelf, box wine, jug wine, house wine
- Drinking Slangdrunk, wasted, hammered, plastered, smashed
- moonshinemoonshine, moonshiner, white lightning, hooch, bootleg
- bootleg liquormoonshine, hooch, bathtub gin, bootlegging
rotgutsingle malt
Unblended Scotch whisky
craft whiskey · sipping whiskey · vintage wine · Dom Pérignon · top-shelf