subs. (common).—Drink.
1876. C. HINDLEY, ed. The Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack, 82. Try to make each other drunk, so that the one who could take the most ‘LOTION’ without being so, might get the best of it by having the place to himself.
1883. Daily Telegraph, 13 April, p. 2, col. 7. In his evidence he said that the testator took his LOTION (liquor) ‘according to his troubles.’
1888. J. RUNCIMAN, The Chequers, 85. You squat still, now, and git through that there LOTION.
1892. MILLIKEN, ’Arry Ballads, 62. The ’ole thing seemed swell, with good grubbing and lots o’ prime LOTION chucked in.
1892. T. A. GUTHRIE (‘F. Anstey’), Mr. Punch’s Model Music-Hall Songs & Dramas, 119. What do you all say to goin’ inside and shunting a little garbage, and shifting a drop or so of LOTION, eh?
