Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gin's piss

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.54 in modern English

Syllables: gin's piss
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Poor-quality beer.

Australian usage; Slang; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"As we Aussies would say a seppo beer like Coors tastes like gin's piss (you don't wanna know!) compared to ours - would you like some beer with your rocky mountain water!"
"Both sound like some sort of Canadian/North American gin's piss but I believe they are reasonable facsimiles of beer as we know it in the Antipodes, so I definitely would go the nearest."
"but he wears a nice hat tho, for whatever that's worth. a flagon of drunken gin′s piss p'raps ?"

Etymology

From gin (“Australian aboriginal woman”) + piss (“inferior alcoholic beverage”).

Usage

Questions

What does gin's piss mean?: Poor-quality beer.
Where does gin's piss come from?: From gin (“Australian aboriginal woman”) + piss (“inferior alcoholic beverage”).

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