shove in the mouth

English

Noun

shove in the mouth (plural shoves in the mouth)

1. (UK, slang, obsolete) A glass of spirits drunk quickly in one go.
   • Noctes Ambrosianae (volume 3, page 334)

     Then he's the most comfortable ghost I ever heard of; for Theodore and I saw him not a week ago taking a shove in the mouth at old Mother Murly's in St. Martin's Lane, with two or three underlings of the gallery about him […]

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary