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Word: chotapegs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...whiskey, or 21 bottles of wine, or 63 bottles of beer a month. It meant the closing of the celebrated Taj Mahal Palace Hotel Bar, centre of Bombay's white community, where Britons regularly go for their "sundowners," the neat, half-size whiskey and soda known as a chotapeg. But for Bombay Presidency's 18,192,500 natives it meant the end of the liquor trade, put some 8,000 members of the wealthy Parsi community out of work, closed 8,500 bars and liquor shops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Toddy and Taxes | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

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