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pop-skull

pop-skull is the alternative spelling of popskull.

Meaning of popskull

Noun

popskull (uncountable)

  1. (slang) cheap inferior whisky, sometimes illegally distilled
    • But they wouldn’t ha’ been no doubt about it if I hadn’t drunk so much pop-skull that my hand ’us shaky!1924, Harvey Hatcher Hughes, Hell-Bent fer Heaven, Harper & Brothers, Act III, page 132

Questions about pop-skull

What is pop-skull the alternative spelling of?
Pop-skull is the alternative spelling of popskull.

Words near pop-skull in the dictionary

  1. pop-punk
  2. pop-punker
  3. pop-rock
  4. pop-sci
  5. pop-science
  6. pop-skull
  7. pop-tart
  8. pop-tarts
  9. pop-the-whip
  10. pop-top
  11. pop-under

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