or fizz, subs. (common).—Champagne; sometimes lemonade and ginger-beer. For synonyms, see BOY.

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  1864.  Punch, vol. XLVII., p. 100. ‘The Turkophone.’

        So away we went to supper,
  For hungry we had grown,
And ordered some FIZZ, which the right thing is,
  With a devilled turkey bone.

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  1889.  St. James’s Magazine, July. Her great object is to get one of these fellows to order the champagne. On each bottle of this stuff disposed of she has a percentage. She terms it ‘FIZZ,’ and will pretend to fall into ecstacies at the prospect of a glass of the chemical essence of gooseberry sweetened up with tartaric acid and sugar of lead.

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  1871.  Morning Advertiser, 11 Sept.

        Shall the Admirals of England now their former prowess drop,
All courage ooze from tarry hands, like FIZ from uncorked ‘pop?’

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  1879.  JUSTIN MCCARTHY, Donna Quixote, ch. xvii. I can open a bottle of soda or FIZZ … and never as much as wink.

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  1883.  Referee, 22 April, p. 3, col. 3. I have seen you wince when it has come to your turn to stand treat, and you have been called upon to pay twelve shillings for a bottle of FIZZ.

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