GROG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grog mean? 

• GROG (noun)
  The noun GROG has 1 sense:

1. rum cut with water

  Familiarity information: GROG used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GROG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rum cut with water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("grog" is a kind of...):

rum (liquor distilled from fermented molasses)

 Context examples 

“Come in, Mr. Fidelio. Every man to his own taste, and six drops to the half-pint seems a sinful watering of grog—but if you like it so, you shall have it.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then, when we had eaten our pork and each had a good stiff glass of brandy grog, the three chiefs got together in a corner to discuss our prospects.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Time has changed me more than it has changed you since then, said I. But let these dear rogues go to bed; and as no house in England but this must hold you, tell me where to send for your luggage (is the old black bag among it, that went so far, I wonder!), and then, over a glass of Yarmouth grog, we will have the tidings of ten years!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Her dejection had no abatement from anything passing around her; a friend or two of her father's, as always happened if he was not with them, spent the long, long evening there; and from six o'clock till half-past nine, there was little intermission of noise or grog.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

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 that they would encounter a worse madman any day for the pleasure of meeting so 'bloomin' good a bloke' as your correspondent.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

We're all humbly grateful for your kindness, and as you see, puts faith in you and takes the drugs down like that much grog.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Mr. Trelawney, being a very open-handed gentleman, as we all know, has just asked me a word or two, and as I was able to tell him that every man on board had done his duty, alow and aloft, as I never ask to see it done better, why, he and I and the doctor are going below to the cabin to drink YOUR health and luck, and you'll have grog served out for you to drink OUR health and luck.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Double grog was going on the least excuse; there was duff on odd days, as, for instance, if the squire heard it was any man's birthday, and always a barrel of apples standing broached in the waist for anyone to help himself that had a fancy.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)