grog

ɡɹɒɡ

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#1·6h ago

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

Origin: 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. Alternatively, from or groch, modern groc, meaning "yellow" (ultimately from ; after the name of the resulting color of the watered down rum sold all over the Mediterranean. The ration of rum tot could also come from meaning "full", "whole". Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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#2·6h ago

(by extension, Australia, New Zealand) Any alcoholic beverage.

I quite understood their drift, and after a stiff glass of grog, or rather more of the same, and with each a sovereign in hand, they made light of the attack, and swore they would encounter a worse madman any day for the pleasure of meet…

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#3·6h ago

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

1950, Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice [The Legacy], New York: William Morrow, Chapter5, p.138,[https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20150641/html.php]

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