red paint

Slang, Obs.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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cheap liquor, especially whisky.

See: redeye

Quotations

1909

The smooth Beau Brummels of the bar, the faro men, are there;/The tinhorns and purveyors of red paint. . . .