shove in the mouth

English

Noun

shove in the mouth (plural shoves in the mouth)

  1. (UK, slang, obsolete) A glass of spirits drunk quickly in one go.
    • Noctes Ambrosianae (volume 3, page 334)
      Then he's the most comfortable ghost I ever heard of; for Theodore and I saw him not a week ago taking a shove in the mouth at old Mother Murly's in St. Martin's Lane, with two or three underlings of the gallery about him […]

References
  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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