Meaning

5 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)An alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy.

    rum cut with water

  2. An alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy.

    (countable, uncountable)An alcoholic beverage made with hot water or tea, sugar and rum, sometimes also with lemon or lime juice and spices, particularly cinnamon.

  3. (Australia, New Zealand, broadly, countable, uncountable)Any alcoholic beverage.

    спиртно́й напи́токspirtnój napítok

  4. (Australia, New Zealand, countable)A glass or serving of an alcoholic beverage.

    1950, Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice [The Legacy], New York: William Morrow, Chapter 5, p. 138, Joe […] told them how he had been nailed up to be beaten, and they shouted another grog for him.

  5. (countable, uncountable)A type of pre-fired clay that has been ground and screened to a specific particle size.

    Schamotte

Examples

2 sentences
  1. We're all out of grog, Captain.

    У нас повністю скінчився грог, капітане. — deniko

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  2. I bet you ten bucks that you can't stay off the grog for a month.

    deIch mache jede Wette, dass du nicht einen Monat die Finger vom Alkohol lassen kannst. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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Translations

6 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
alcoholic beverage made with rum and water:
Русский
By meaning 2
alcoholic beverage made with rum and water:
any alcoholic beverage:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
alcoholic beverage made with rum and water:
type of pre-fired clay:

Origin

An allusion to Admiral Edward Vernon (nicknamed “Old Grog” after the grogram coat he habit

An allusion to Admiral Edward Vernon (nicknamed “Old Grog” after the grogram coat he habitually wore), who in 1740 ordered his sailors' rum to be watered down.

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