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From The Internet Guide to Jazz-Aged Slang come the following copacetic words and phrases:

Places to drink:

  • barrell house: illegal distillery
  • drum: speakeasy
  • gin mill: a seller of hard liquor; a cheap speakeasy
  • joint: establishment
  • juice joint: a speakeasy
  • shine box: a bar or club for black patrons
  • speakeasy: a bar selling illeagal liquor

Other drinking terms:

  • belt: a drink of liquor
  • bent: drunk
  • bootleg: illegal liquor
  • busthead: homemade liquor
  • coffin varnish: bootleg liquor, often poisonous
  • dead soldier: an empty beer bottle
  • horse linament: bootleg liquor
  • jorum of skee: a drink of hard liquor
  • on a toot: a drinking binge
  • rotgut: bootleg liquor
  • snort: a drink of liquor
  • strike-me-dead: bootleg liquor
  • white lightning: bootleg liquor