seafood

seafood
   obsolete American
   whisky
   A Prohibition use 'to mislead the police or strangers' [DAS). Most bootleg liquor came by sea or over the Great Lakes.

How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms. . 2014.

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  • seafood —    With an estimated per capita consumption of fish more than twice the EU average, it is to be expected that seafood of all kinds bulks large in the Spanish diet, and this assumption is amply confirmed by a walk through a market or past local… …   Encyclopedia of contemporary Spanish culture

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