Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a fiery drink, esp. raw gin; thus strip-me-naked shop, a public house.

1751		Newcastle Courant 9 Mar. 4/3: [ballad title] Strip me Naked, or, Royal Gin for Ever.
1752		‘Roxana Termagent’ Drury Lane Jrnl 16 Jan. 5: Sunday last Moll Draggletail, alias Foulmouth, alias Fire-ship, alias Strip-me-naked, alias Bung your eye, was [...] charg’d with an intent to commit fornication, by street-walking in the Strand.
1756		W. Toldervy Hist. of the Two Orphans III 112: Taking a dirty paper out of her bosom, in which was written the following words: Tape, glim, rushlight, white port, rasher of bacon, gunpowder, slug, wild-fire, knock-me-down, and strip-me-naked. ‘O! this last is gin,’ cried Copper.
1775		Gentleman’s Mthly Intelligencer Aug. 409/1: Upon examination you find the inside of the cabbage taken out, and a bladder of strip me naked placed in the stead.
1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (3rd edn).
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1820		Jack Randall’s Diary 4: After having took a fill Of Strip-me-naked, or of gin, Or prime blue ruin, which you will.
1864, 1867, 1870		Hotten Sl. Dict.
1882		Sydney Sl. Dict. (2 edn) 8: Stark-naked (orig’n’lly strip-me-naked) - Raw gin.
1883		Ipswich Jrnl 6 Feb. 2/6: A young urchin stepped up to a bar, ‘Sixpennyworth of strip-me-naked’, if you please’.
1884		N. Devon Jrnl 19 Oct. 2/2: He once heard a friend describe public-houses as ‘strip-me-naked shops’.
1896		Journal (Russell, KS) 30 July 6/5: She dashed the money upon the counter [...] and asked for three pennyworth of ‘strip-me-naked’.
1911		Boston Guardian 16 Dec. 12/3: Recitation, ‘A pint of strip me naked’. Miss May Perkins.
1917		‘Henry Handel Richardson’ Aus. Felix (1971) 17: Come on in for a drop o’ the real strip-me-down-naked!
1972		B. Wannan Folklore of the Aus. Pub 124: Another heady goldfields brew was known as Strip-me-down-naked.