Definition of "rotgut" []

• Slang Raw, inferior liquor. (noun)

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• "That doesn’t even do it well, because I’ve had some very good plonk, and rotgut is never good."
• "As long as they had somewhere they could peddle their hallucinogenic drugs, gamble their lives away and drown their sorrows in the kind of rotgut that'd leave their livers with the consistency of damp and mouldy Swiss cheese, they didn't care what the name of the damn place was."
• "'He has a place down here in a top loft, and has got two hundred and fifty barrels of "rotgut" whiskey."