Jump to content

babash

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

babash (uncountable)

  1. (Trinidad and Tobago) bush rum
    • 1994, Mary L. Gill, Presence, Identity and Meaning in the Trinidad Carnival:
      After this Martin became very despondent and withdrew to the lorry to console himself with a bottle of "babash" (moonshine).
    • 1995, Rudolph Ottley, Calypsonians from Then to Now, page 190:
      If I have a babash he get. If he get a babash he bring for me, he didn't have to bring it, […]
    • 1999, Shani Mootoo, Cereus Blooms at Night:
      The air in the closed-up room was thick with the smell of spilled full-proof babash.
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=babash&oldid=81986087"