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"white wine" Definition

  1. the fashionable term for gin. “Jack Randall then impatient rose, And said, ‘Tom’s speech were just as fine If he would call that first of GOES By that genteeler name—WHITE WINE.’” _Randall’s Diary_, 1820.

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Position in the dictionary: 3940 of 4022 slang words.
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