jackey

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English

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Noun

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jackey (uncountable)

  1. (slang, obsolete, UK) Gin (the drink).
    • 1811, William Mudford, The Life and Adventures of Paul Plaintive, Esq., page 31:
      Mrs. Jenkins and Sukey […] were anxious to have a privy conference over a glass of jackey, about the singular absence of Ezekiel.
    • 1823, The Rambler's Magazine (page 354)
      [A] glass of Jackey restored him to his senses.

References

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  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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