grog
An alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors…An alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy.
» We're all out of grog, Captain.
У нас повністю скінчився грог, капітане.
Meaning
5 senses(countable, uncountable)An alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy.
rum cut with water
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.
(Australia, New Zealand, broadly, countable, uncountable)Any alcoholic beverage.
спиртно́й напи́токspirtnój napítok
(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.
(countable, uncountable)A type of pre-fired clay that has been ground and screened to a specific particle size.
Schamotte
Examples
2 sentencesWe're all out of grog, Captain.
У нас повністю скінчився грог, капітане. — deniko
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
Translations
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Origin
An allusion to Admiral Edward Vernon (nicknamed “Old Grog” after the grogram coat he habitAn 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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Forms
plural: grogsSynonyms
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