tonic n.2
1. (a glass of) alcohol.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 4 Nov. 2/4: ‘This morning I got up jess about day to get me a tonic at de saloon’. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Townsville Daily Bulletin (Qld) 1 Mar. 10/4: Breastin’ the bar to put the kind word on the publican for a farewell tonic. | |
| East Goes West 69: It also used to be the delightful practice of some of the ‘dags’ to journey on this train to Augusta to arrange for supplies of tonic, and to have a blow-out [...] No liquor was allowed on any of the trains. . but the harder they tried to enforce the rule, the more the grog came in [AND]. |
2. (Scot. teen) Buckfast Tonic Wine, a caffeinated fortified wine; orig. produced by monks in Buckfast Abbey, Devon, recently associated with ned n.4 (1) in Scotland, esp.the ‘Buckie Triangle’ – an area east of Glasgow between Airdrie, Coatbridge and Cumbernauld.
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Young Team 10: We [...] pass a bottle ae Tonic aboot that we aw chipped in fur. |
In derivatives
(Aus.) drunk.
| Truth (Sydney) 14 Apr. 3/5: He comes home tonicked, but not too tonicked. | |
| W.A. Sun. Times (Perth) 21 Apr. 1/1: One tonicked toaster attributed the beauty of the Swan scenery to the monied Mayor. | |
| Bulletin (Sydney) 16 July 14/2: We had a pig raffle at Gohanner Flat t’other night, an’ wos real jolly, we wos. In course we wos all a bit tonicked. | |
| Bulletin (Sydney) 1 Feb. 13/1: When ’twas seen That his team was tonicked only to the verge of talking fight, Not a sober man would back him for a bean. | |
| Sun. Times (Perth) 24 Dec. 2s/3: They talked the ladies seasick and the bone-fides blue, / Till all on board got tonicked up. | |
 | Opal Bk 57: The wicked old lout had been ‘tonic’d’ as they call it and had wandered about bushed for twentyfour hours. |