grog
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Is grog a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of grog?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (by extension, Australia, New Zealand) Any alcoholic beverage.Examples: "I quite understood their drift, and after a stiff glass of grog, or rather more of the same, and with each a sovereign in hand, they made light of the attack, and swore they would encounter a worse madman any day for the pleasure of meeting so 'bloomin' good a bloke' as your correspondent."AustraliaNew-Zealandbroadlycountableuncountable
2. (countable, Australia, New Zealand) A glass or serving of an alcoholic beverage.Examples: "1950, Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice [The Legacy], New York: William Morrow, Chapter 5, p. 138, Joe […] told them how he had been nailed up to be beaten, and they shouted another grog for him."AustraliaNew-Zealandcountable
3. (ceramics) A type of pre-fired clay that has been ground and screened to a specific particle size.Synonyms: chamotte, firesandcountableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive, ceramics) To grind and screen (clay) to a specific particle size.transitive
2. (intransitive, slang) To drink alcohol.Examples: "[…] a practice of “equal surrender.” This evocative phrase comes from Basil Sansom's ethnography […] of grogging sessions among Aboriginal communities in Darwin. Sansom argues that this style of communal drinking […]"intransitiveslang
Definition source: Wiktionary