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General Slang
pruno
· noun · prison
Homemade prison hooch fermented from fruit, sugar and bread.
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Improvised wine brewed in a cell from whatever ferments: oranges, fruit cocktail, ketchup, sugar packets, bread for the yeast, all sealed in a plastic bag and hidden warm for days. Tastes like the inside of a bin and can put you in the infirmary — botulism outbreaks from pruno are a documented thing — but it gets you drunk, which is the entire point.
“They found a bag of pruno fermenting behind his locker, smelled the whole block out.”
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pruno In A Sentence
They found a bag of pruno fermenting behind his locker, smelled the whole block out.
Origin & Usage
American prison slang, mid-20th century. The CDC has published case reports on botulism outbreaks tied to pruno batches.
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