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redeye † Slang 
n. cheap liquor, especially whisky.
See also: Calgary redeye pink-eye
- 1900 They generally paid the Indians in liquor--the vilest of "red-eye"--but, if possible, they paid them only with blows.
- 1945 "You're not sure whether it's genuine red-eye or snake poison."
- 1962 Under the general term liquor we have "Old Alky" . . . "red-eye" . . . for whiskey. . . .
- 1900 They generally paid the Indians in liquor--the vilest of "red-eye"--but, if possible, they paid them only with blows.