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homebrew Slang

• 1a n. in Canadian professional football, a native-born player.

  See also: import (def. 2)  

  • 1957  The Leos still are short of homebrews and are plagued by a problem at quarterback they have never succeeded in solving.
  • 1964  The chief economic factor is that American players, whether Canadianized or not, still draw more salary than homebrews.

• 1b n. a local player in any sport; a player trained by the team for which he plays.

  • 1958  To make room for import talent en route from the States, Edmonton Eskimos announced the release of 16-year-old homebrew third sacker Gene Kinesewich today.
  • 1962  We are strictly a homebrew [hockey] club and all positions on the club are wide open.
  • 1964  . . . the kid boom in British Columbia is the most forceful evidence of "home brew" soccer potential I have encountered.

• 2 n. any person or thing of native origin.

  • 1963  Rebel members of the International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers at Crofton on Vancouver Island have led the first in what could be a series of breakaways from the International union and the formation of a strictly homebrew union to cover 5,000 pulp mill workers in B.C.
  • 1963  I attended the Tuesday noon showing of the production before there was any hint of grief for the home-brew effort, and came to a few personal conclusions about it.
  • 1966  Some of this [applause] can be attributed to local enthusiasm for the home-brew [a playwright].