n. cheap inferior whisky.
See also: redeye
- 1900  As his capital consisted of a yoke of oxen, a waggon, six four-gallon kegs of pink-eye and a Winchester rifle, he certainly received a fair interest on his investment.
- 1953  (1962)  At Bender's joint, the price of a pint of pink-eye was a day's hard labor in a mine-head.