chain-lightning

Slang

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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inferior whisky.

Quotations

1843

The drinks ain't good here [England]; they hante no variety in them nother: no white-nose, apple-jack, stone-wall, chain-lightning. . . .

1860

His stock is said to have been "chain-lightning" of the truest description.

1869

We found them well supplied with flour, rice, molasses, beans, tobacco, and "chain lightning" in spite of our legislation to the contrary.