dry ((adj.))†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1adj.

forbidding the sale and use of intoxicating beverages.

Quotations

1915

Should the Prohibition Act have passed in the meantime, you will take up your permanent abode in the dry province of Alberta.

1959

Six Nations Indians voted early in May to end the "dry" status that has always prevailed on the reservation five miles south of here.

2adj.

(quasi-adverbial use, as in vote dry, go dry, etc.) against the sale and use of intoxicating beverages.

1910

At the recent local elections the town of Newmarket, Ont., went dry.

1922

. . . the Dominion government . . . had legislated the whole country dry.

1938

When local option was exercised here, Victoria voted dry.