julep

plural juleps · alternative dated julap

1. A refreshing drink flavored with aromatic herbs, especially mint, and sometimes alcohol.

   Yo, we be making mountains out of Cool Whip / Pass me the mint for the julep

   1999, “The Brouhaha”, in Hello Nasty, performed by Beastie Boys

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   He wouldnt even let old Wilkie touch it do you remember Gerald but always gathered it himself and made his own julep. He was as crochety about his julep as an old maid, measuring everything by a recipe in his head.

   1929, William Faulkner, “The Sound and the Fury”, in The Sound and the Fury & As I Lay Dying, New York, N.Y.: The Modern Library, published 1946, →OCLC, page 184

   In 1797 the American Museum described the Virginian who upon rising “drinks a julep made of rum, water, and sugar, but very strong.” The mint was added a few years later.

   2014, John T. Edge, The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 7: Foodways, UNC Press Books, →ISBN, page 198

2. historicalmedicineA pleasant-tasting liquid medicine in which other nauseous medicines are taken.

   Contraction of the left ventricular orifice, with hypertrophy of the corresponding ventricle; catarrh at the superior part of the right lung. (Julep; digital; aperit. oxymel scillit.)

   1833, R. J. Bertin, translated by Charles W. Chauncy, Treatise on the Diseases of the Heart, and Great Vessels, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blnachard, page 189