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pruno

pruno

2 9.9
An alcoholic drink that prisoners secretly make from fruit and sugar
  • noun
  • /ˈpruːnoʊ/
  • Slang
: pruno
  • Some of the carnales just finished cooking up a batch of pruno.
  • make pruno

Examples

  • - Pruno is prison wine.

    Pain & Gain (2013)

  • But a week before I got sprung, I had a little pruno slip.

    Pain & Gain (2013)

  • This pruno goes right to your head.

    American Me (1992)

  • I made the best pruno in the yard.

    Pain & Gain (2013)

  • I was takin' some pruno over to the guys in storage.

    Death Warrant (1990)

  • Pruno.

    Death Warrant (1990)

  • Inmates often pass the time by making their own pruno from fruit and sugar.

  • The recipe for pruno is simple and involves fermenting discarded fruit.

  • During the long nights, the prisoners enjoyed sharing stories over homemade pruno.

How Alcoholic

proof spirit
  • Specialized
1 8.4
to moonshine
  • NSFW
1 9.1
pruno
  • Slang
2 9.9
near beer
  • Archaic
1 5.1

Surface Forms

pruno singular
prunos plural

Morphology

pruno = prune (semi-transparent) = prune + o

The form suggests 'prune' + the colloquial suffix '-o', so a relation to prunes is visible, but the specialized meaning 'prison-made alcoholic drink' is not fully predictable from the base.

Etymology

Pruno is prison slang for a homemade alcoholic drink and probably comes from the word prune, which means a dried 'plum'. Prisoners often ferment fruit like plums to make a rough wine, so thinking of prune helps you remember pruno as that improvised prison drink.