subs. (American).—1.  Food; sustenance; grub. [A figurative usage of the legitimate word.]

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  1870.  HENRY KANUTE, Notice in Green Bay (Wis.) Gazette, 13 Oct.

        I, therefore, take thus to forewarn
  You not to trust her with a straw,
For I will never pay her CORN
  Unless compelled by law.

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  2.  (American).—An abbreviated form of CORN-JUICE (q.v.), i.e., whiskey.

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  1843.  ROBB, The Standing Candidate.

        ‘Ef you wur a babby, jest new born,
’Twould do you good, this juicy CORN!’

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  TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE CORN, phr. (American).—See ACKNOWLEDGE, and the following quote:

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  1846.  New York Herald, 27 June. The Evening Mirror very naïvely comes out and ACKNOWLEDGES THE CORN, admits that a demand was made, etc.

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