Blue ruin

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    Low-end gin, usually home-made. archaic, slang, uncountable

    "‘Till you're full of rag water and bitters and blue ruin’"

  2. 2
    Complete and utter ruin, desolation. uncountable

    ""It's blue ruin." He laughed for the third time. I notice that people always laugh when they prophesy blue ruin."

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