redeye†

Slang

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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cheap liquor, especially whisky.

Quotations

1900

They generally paid the Indians in liquor--the vilest of "red-eye"--but, if possible, they paid them only with blows.

1945

"You're not sure whether it's genuine red-eye or snake poison."

1962

Under the general term liquor we have "Old Alky" . . . "red-eye" . . . for whiskey. . . .