laughing soup (water/juice)

laughing soup (water/juice)
n
alcohol. These are middle-class witti-cisms applied particularly to champagne or gin. Laughing water also recalls the Indian princess in Longfellow's long nar-rative poem Hiawatha. Similar terms still in use are giggle water, electric soup or lunatic soup.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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