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julep
/ˈd͡ʒuːlɛp/
noun 2
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4ADJ.
old, own
VERB + JULEP
drinks, made, rising
JULEP + NOUN
rum
PREP.
about
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noun
1
A refreshing drink flavored with aromatic herbs, especially mint, and sometimes alcohol.
He wouldnt even let old Wilkie touch it do you remember Gerald but always gathered it himself and made his own julep. He was as crochety about his julep as an old maid, measuring everything by a recipe in his head.
Yo, we be making mountains out of Cool Whip / Pass me the mint for the julep
2
A pleasant-tasting liquid medicine in which other nauseous medicines are taken.
Contraction of the left ventricular orifice, with hypertrophy of the corresponding ventricle; catarrh at the superior part of the right lung. (Julep; digital; aperit. oxymel scillit.)
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He wouldnt even let old Wilkie touch it do you remember Gerald but always gathered it himself and made his own julep. He was as crochety about his julep as an old maid, measuring everything by a recip
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Yo, we be making mountains out of Cool Whip / Pass me the mint for the julep
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In 1797 the American Museum described the Virginian who upon rising “drinks a julep made of rum, water, and sugar, but very strong.” The mint was added a few years later.
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