What does who-hit-john mean?

who-hit-john

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.05 in modern English

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American usage; Slang; Uncountable

"The bottle of Who-Hit-John was only a quarter full now and he was giving serious thought to taking another swallow of the stuff, as harsh as it might be on a man's system."
"Our leader, Colonel Sibley, found the march considerable boring, and a few weeks into it, he retired to the bed of his wagon, accompanied by two prostitutes and a barrel of who-hit-John."

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