a cheap potent liquor made and sold by Chinese.
- 1919  "He'd seen me down in the Del Monte joint, and thought -- well, he was filled up on Chinese rum. He wasn't none too much like a man in anything he said or done, but I was standin' for him as long as he don't get plumb Injun."
- 1935  . . . he distilled a potent liquor from a mash of pounded rice and other ingredients whose identity passed beyond common understanding; it was known as Chinese gin . . . .