applejack

noun

ap·​ple·​jack ˈa-pəl-ˌjak How to pronounce applejack (audio)
: brandy distilled from hard cider
also : an alcoholic beverage traditionally made by freezing hard cider and siphoning off the concentrated liquor

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Else joins a growing Fandor catalog which also features the breakout picture Hundreds of Beaver about a drunken applejack salesman who morphs into North America’s greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers. — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 17 Mar. 2025 Johnny Appleseed did not give out seeds for the planting of edible apples, but rather for the growth of apples in order to produce liquor from their juice, otherwise known as applejack. — Susan Cheever, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2016

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1816, in the meaning defined above

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