Sentence examples for bathtub gin from inspiring English sources

The phrase "bathtub gin" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used to refer to homemade or illicitly produced gin, especially during the Prohibition era in the United States. Example: "During the 1920s, many people resorted to making bathtub gin to enjoy a drink despite the ban on alcohol."

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bathtub gin

noun

Gin or a similar alcoholic beverage which is of very poor quality, as if made by a homebrewer in a bathtub.

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I may not make bathtub gin.

Making a "bathtub" gin at home is easy.

THE CROWD Bathtub Gin caters to entry-level exclusivity.

They served Dutch Schultz beer and bathtub gin during Prohibition.

The latest is Bathtub Gin, a fake Victorian bar "hidden" behind a coffee shop in Chelsea.

It's been a long time since scofflaw drinkers were forced to resort to bathtub gin.

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Americans, offered near-beer products like Bevo, Lux-O, Hoppy and Quizz, decided that they would rather brew their own or have a bathtub-gin martini.

The opening scene looks like a New Yorker cover, one of those great Art Deco drawings that make you want to slurp up the city like ice cream or sip it languidly like a bathtub-gin martini with olives.

This was a different world for the Fitzgeralds -- different from the post-collegiate hi-jinks they'd gotten into in New York, and the bathtub-gin-soaked parties on the North Shore that Fitzgerald portrayed in Gatsby.

Opponents such as the late economist Milton Friedman have long highlighted the similarities between particularly noxious illicit drugs like homemade meth and crack cocaine and toxic, prohibition-era concoctions like wood alcohol or bathtub-distilled gin.

Gin by Lesley Jacobs Solmonson (Reaktion, £9.99) After a hard day's panoptical musing or think-tank driving one might hanker after some botanical refreshment, and hang the authorities – as did William Faulkner, brewing up moonshine gin in his bathtub during prohibition.

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