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first shots noun See 1949 citation. [DARE labels this usage “South, South Midland”]

1911 Shearin E KY Word-list 538 first shot = the last and therefore strongest run of whiskey from the still. 1939 Hall Coll (Cataloochee Creek NC) I was drinking the first shots of singlings, you know, and it made me drunk 1949 Maurer Argot of Moonshiner 10 = the high-proof alcohol which comes off when the stilling process is started: “This ‘ere still [is] yet runnin’ first shots.” 1963 Carson History Bourbon 236-37 = the first portion of spirit that vaporizes when the still begins to work. The term is applied to both the production of high wines and low wines.

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