tarantula-juice n.
inferior whisky.
![]() | City of the Saints 30: He can do nothing without whisky, which he loves to call tarantula-juice [...] and many other hard and grotesque names. | |
![]() | Big Bonanza (1947) 285: But let me come home full of tangle-leg, sheep-herder’s delight, and tarant’ler juice, and that is the durndest shamedest dog above ground. | |
![]() | Fifty Years on the Trail 126: The quantity of ‘Tarantula juice’ we had to drink to keep our circulation going was surprising. ‘Tarantula juice’ is two quarts alcohol, a few burnt peaches, a plug of black tobacco, put in a keg and filled up to five gallons of water. | |
![]() | Coronado’s Children 28: The Comanches brought in a jug of fire water — regular old tarantula juice — from somewhere and they all got as drunk as a covey of biled owls [DA]. | |
![]() | Cowboy Lingo 228: The Westerner’s names for whiskey were legion [...] ‘tarantula juice.’. |