babash

bush rum

Noun

  1. bush rum

    Trinidad and Tobago

    • After this Martin became very despondent and withdrew to the lorry to console himself with a bottle of "babash" (moonshine). - 1994, Mary L. Gill, Presence, Identity and Meaning in the Trinidad Carnival
    • If I have a babash he get. If he get a babash he bring for me, he didn't have to bring it, […] - 1995, Rudolph Ottley, Calypsonians from Then to Now, page 190
    • The air in the closed-up room was thick with the smell of spilled full-proof babash. - 1999, Shani Mootoo, Cereus Blooms at Night