Hellbrew

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A horrible liquid mixture.

    "The only virtue of tequila, so far as I know, is cheapness. It has no flavour. It stupefies more quickly and more cheaply than any hellbrew I have yet encountered."

  2. 2
    A hellish mess.

    "But—known only to a handful of Hasbrouck Heights residents—the shadow of her finger thrusts down through a dozen years to stir two lives into a hellbrew."

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"The only virtue of tequila, so far as I know, is cheapness. It has no flavour. It stupefies more quickly and more cheaply than any hellbrew I have yet encountered."

Etymology

From hell + brew.

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