common sewer

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.63 in modern English

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British usage; Archaic; Slang

"When men go into a 'sluicery' for a 'sensation,' a 'drain,' or a 'common sewer,' they call the glass of gin they seek, in allusion to the juniper, a 'nipper,' or, more briefly, a 'nip,' occasionally a 'bite,' and not unfrequently it turns out a 'flogger.'"

A punning allusion to shared drains for sewage. Compare drain (“a drink”).

common sewers (plural)

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