cat-lap

cat-lap

English

Noun

cat-lap (uncountable)

1. (Britain, slang, obsolete) Any very weak drink.
   • 1823, William Cobbett, Cobbett's Weekly Register (volume 46, page 777)

     What reason has he, therefore, to suppose that the return of the smock-frock will even increase the gobbling of potatoes and the drinking of cat-lap?

   • 1862, Vanity Fair (volume 5, issues 106-144, page 59)

     […] before he could presume to deliver an opinion upon the comparative merits of cat-lap and grog […]

References

• 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary