Green’s Dictionary of Slang

batch n.1

[SE batch, a quantity, a number; in this case of bottles or glassfuls]

a quantity of liquor; thus a heavy night’s drinking.

[UK]J. Townley High Life Below Stairs I ii: Sir Harry, we’ll have a noble Batch—I have such Wine for you!
[UK]Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (ms additions, 3rd edn) n.p.: Batch. We had a pretty batch of it last night; we had a hearty dose of liquor. Batch originally means the whole quantity of bread baked at one time in an oven.
[UK]Lex. Balatronicum.
[UK]Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
[US]Goldin et al. DAUL 24/1: Batch. (P) A quantity of home brew. ‘The P.K. (Principal Keeper) caught Mike with a batch of potato water (a fermentation of potato peelings, yeast, and sugar).’.

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