grog

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)An alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy.

   “[…] giving him a calebash, and the best part of a bottle of my rum, I desired him to run to the creek, and make me some grog, and this he did; but the poor fellow, never having made grog before, poured in all the spirits and but very little water, doubtless thinking, that the stronger it was the better; which beverage I swallowed to the bottom, without taking time to taste it, and I became instantly so much intoxicated that I could hardly keep my feet.”

2. (countable, uncountable)An alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy.
3. (Australia, New-Zealand, broadly, countable, uncountable)Any alcoholic beverage.

   “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.”

4. (Australia, New-Zealand, countable)A glass or serving of an alcoholic beverage.

   “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.”

5. (countable, uncountable)A type of pre-fired clay that has been ground and screened to a specific particle size.

verb

1. (transitive)To grind and screen (clay) to a specific particle size.
2. (intransitive, slang)To drink alcohol.

   “[…] 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 […]”

name

1. A male given name of a notional caveman.

   “For quotations using this term, see Citations:Grog.”