"Red eye: n. 1. Whisky of very poor quality. In full redeye whisky. ... 1819 QUITMAN in Claiborne Life Quitman I. 42 Whiting and I had a treat to 'red-eye,' or 'rot-gut,' as whiskey is here Ky. called." -- Dictionary of Americanisms.

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