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name one's poison

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.90 in modern English

Syllables
name one's poi-son
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To indicate what type of alcoholic beverage one wishes to be served.

Etymology

From the US prohibition era, when the government required that the base ingredients for many products have poisons added to them to make it harder for them to be distilled into alcohol. As a result, much of the prohibition alcohol was actually poison when not distilled completely or properly.

Inflected Forms

names one's poison (present, singular) naming one's poison (participle, present) named one's poison (participle, past) named one's poison (past)

Questions

What does name one's poison mean?
To indicate what type of alcoholic beverage one wishes to be served.
Where does name one's poison come from?
From the US prohibition era, when the government required that the base ingredients for many products have poisons added to them to make it harder for them to be distilled into alcohol. As a result, much of the prohibition alcohol was actually poison when not distilled completely or properly.

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