DCHP-3

Chinese gin

B.C.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a cheap potent liquor made and sold by Chinese.

Quotations

1919
"He'd seen me down in the Del Monte joint, and thought -- well, he was filled up on Chinese rum. He wasn't none too much like a man in anything he said or done, but I was standin' for him as long as he don't get plumb Injun."
1935
. . . he distilled a potent liquor from a mash of pounded rice and other ingredients whose identity passed beyond common understanding; it was known as Chinese gin . . . .