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grog

Best crossword clue

"Sailor's rum mix"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /ɡɹɒɡ/Part of speech nounSorted ggorStarts with GEnds with G2 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. rum cut with water

Word origin

Alternatively, from Old Catalan grog or groch, modern groc, meaning "yellow" (ultimately from Latin crocum (“saffron”); after the name of the resulting color of the watered down rum sold all over the Mediterranean. The ration of rum tot could also come from Catalan tot meaning "full", "whole".

Used in a sentence

  • 1950, Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice [The Legacy], New York: William Morrow, Chapter 5, p. 138, Joe […] told them how he had been nailed up to be beaten, and they shouted another grog for him.
  • […] a practice of “equal surrender.” This evocative phrase comes from Basil Sansom's ethnography […] of grogging sessions among Aboriginal communities in Darwin. Sansom argues that this style of communal drinking […]
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:Grog.

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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Sailor's rum mix4 letters
02Diluted rum drink4 letters

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