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burglar's wine

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Noun

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burglar's wine (plural burglar's wines)

  1. Drugged or poisoned wine
    • 1920's arr: Grayson and Whitter Rose Conley
      I had a bottle of the burglar's wine which my true love did not know/and there I poison'd my own true love down under the banks below