Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Jumping-powder
subs. (common).—A stimulant administered to give spirit and ‘go’ to a person or animal.
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1840. D. P. BLAINE, An Encyclopædia of Rural Sports, 385. Had he, moreover, been fortified into pursuing the ‘varmint’ by a certain quantum of ‘JUMPING POWDER.’
