gin's piss

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English

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Etymology

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From gin (Australian aboriginal woman) + piss (inferior alcoholic beverage).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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gin's piss (uncountable)

  1. (Australia, slang) Poor quality beer.[1]
    • 1998 September 29, AG, “A Winnah-Beck's Bier, Pretzels and Pinball!”, in rec.games.pinball[1] (Usenet):
      As we Aussies would say a seppo beer like Coors tastes like gin's piss (you don't wanna know!) compared to ours - would you like some beer with your rocky mountain water!
    • 2002 October 28, tediboy, “Labatt Blue vs. Molson Canadian”, in alt.beer[2] (Usenet):
      Both sound like some sort of Canadian/North American gin's piss but I believe they are reasonable facsimiles of beer as we know it in the Antipodes, so I definitely would go the nearest.
    • 2004 July 25, Teotwawki, “Titles for Scurvy's Life Story”, in alt.music.deep-purple[3] (Usenet):
      but he wears a nice hat tho, for whatever that's worth.
      a flagon of drunken gin′s piss p'raps ?

References

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  1. ^ 1990, R. M. W. Dixon, Australian Aboriginal Words, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 167.

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