Dirty liquid such as that produced by the washing out of casks or other vessels; also, poor liquor.

Kitchen or brewery refuse and scraps (esp. in liquid form) used as food for pigs, pigswill; (in extended use) any liquid of inferior quality, as…

depreciative. Any liquid for drinking that is of very poor quality, as cheap beer, wine, etc.

Liquor, esp. poor, weak, or ‘small’ liquor, ‘tipple’.

Alcoholic spirits or other liquor, esp. of an inferior quality. Also figurative.

colloquial. Poor quality liquor or spirits; a makeshift alcoholic drink. Obsolete.

Washy or vapid liquor. Also figurative, vapid discourse or writing.

Chiefly North American. Weak or poor-quality drink, esp. alcoholic drink.

(Usually with lower-case initial.) An alcoholic liquor made by Alaskan Indians, esp. the Hoochinoo people; also any inferior alcoholic drink (esp…

(a) = Hoochinoo, n. 2. (b) In more general use: alcoholic liquor, spirits, esp. of low quality or illegal provenance.

slang (chiefly Australian). Cheap or home-made alcoholic drink; (also) a person addicted to this. Cf. pinkie, n.3 1, red-eye, n. 6. Now rare.

Inferior liquor; a public house that sells this. Also attributive.

slang. Cheap strong alcohol; a drink of this.

figurative. An alcoholic drink of poor quality. U.S. slang.

any of various improvised intoxicating drinks, esp. one containing a cheap commercial substance with a high alcohol content.