Bathtub gin

Near-synonyms: rotgut, gut rot, hooch, swill, red-eye, moonshine

Part of Dallman's "Three Blind Mice" parody follows: / They called us donkey-braying cranks / But all they gave to win our thanks / Was bathtub gin and busted banks / For twelve long years.

A 1976 Broadway hit, "Bubbling Brown Sugar" recreates the night life of the 1920s - when they drank "scotch in teacups" and bathtub gin.

And Wendy's on the windowsill / Waitin' to be let in / And we're all in the bathtub now / Making bathtub gin

It wasn't just the violent Prohibition-era gang wars that were dangerous to Americans drinking homemade moonshine and bathtub gin.