Usually means: Strong alcoholic drink, often whiskey.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. firewater: Merriam-Webster
  2. firewater: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. firewater: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. firewater: Collins English Dictionary
  5. firewater: Vocabulary.com
  6. firewater: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. firewater: Wiktionary
  8. firewater: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. firewater: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. firewater: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. firewater: Dictionary.com
  12. Firewater (Tha Alkaholiks album), Firewater (Whiskey Myers album), Firewater (band), Firewater (film), Firewater (fire fighting), Firewater: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. firewater: Rhymezone
  14. firewater: FreeDictionary.org
  15. firewater: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. firewater: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. Firewater, firewater: Wordnik
  18. firewater: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. firewater: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Firewater: Bar-Nones Dictionary of Drinking
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Firewater: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  2. firewater: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  (informal) High-proof alcoholic beverage, especially whiskey (especially in the context of its sale to or consumption by Native Americans).
▸ noun:  (especially manufacturing) Water for use in firefighting.
▸ noun:  High-temperature hydraulic condensate discharged from industrial boilers.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) Synonym of alkahest.

Similar:
jet fuel, firewagon, firecan, fustian, firehose, firebare, firebote, fireward, fumosity, firecraft, more...

Types:
moonshine, whiskey, scotch, bourbon, rye, more...

Adjectives:
local, much, little, real, red, enough, old, poisonous, drunk, pure, russian

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Similar:
jet fuel, firewagon, firecan, fustian, firehose, firebare, firebote, fireward, fumosity, firecraft, more...

Types:
moonshine, whiskey, scotch, bourbon, rye, more...

Adjectives:
local, much, little, real, red, enough, old, poisonous, drunk, pure, russian



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