babash

noun

babash

noun
  • After this Martin became very despondent and withdrew to the lorry to console himself with a bottle of "babash" (moonshine).1994, Mary L. Gill, Presence, Identity and Meaning in the Trinidad Carnival:
  • If I have a babash he get. If he get a babash he bring for me, he didn't have to bring it, […]1995, Rudolph Ottley, Calypsonians from Then to Now, page 190:
1 more example
  • The air in the closed-up room was thick with the smell of spilled full-proof babash.1999, Shani Mootoo, Cereus Blooms at Night:

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