grog

plural grogs

1. countableuncountableAn alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy.

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   […] giving him a calebash, and the best part of a bottle of my rum, I desired him to run to the creek, and make me some grog, and this he did; but the poor fellow, never having made grog before, poured in all the spirits and but very little water, doubtless thinking, that the stronger it was the better; which beverage I swallowed to the bottom, without taking time to taste it, and I became instantly so much intoxicated that I could hardly keep my feet.

   1796, John Stedman, chapter 11, in Narrative of a Five Years’ Expedition, volume 1, London: J. Johnson, page 264

   1. countableuncountableAn alcoholic beverage made with hot water or tea, sugar and rum, sometimes also with lemon or lime juice and spices, particularly cinnamon.
2. AustraliaNew ZealandbroadlycountableuncountableAny alcoholic beverage.

   I quite understood their drift, and after a stiff glass of grog, or rather more of the same, and with each a sovereign in hand, they made light of the attack, and swore they would encounter a worse madman any day for the pleasure of meeting so 'bloomin' good a bloke' as your correspondent.

   1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, published 1993, page 142

3. AustraliaNew ZealandcountableA glass or serving of an alcoholic beverage.

   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.

4. countableuncountableceramicsA type of pre-fired clay that has been ground and screened to a specific particle size.

   Synonyms: chamotte, firesand

present singular third person grogs · participle present grogging · participle past grogged · past grogged

1. transitiveceramicsTo grind and screen (clay) to a specific particle size.
2. intransitiveslangTo drink alcohol.

   […] 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 […]

   2009, Kalissa Alexeyeff, Dancing from the Heart

1. A male given name of a notional caveman.

   For quotations using this term, see Citations:Grog.