pickleback

noun

1. A shot of whiskey with a shot of pickle brine as the chaser.

   Reggie poured me a pickleback, which he described as the house specialty: a shot of Old Crow bourbon and an accompanying shot of brine from a jar of McClure’s spicy dills.

2. The shot of pickle brine itself as a chaser.

   There are drink deals to match, like the Recession Special, which nets you a PBR tall boy, a shot of whiskey. and a shot of spicy pickleback for a modest $6.

Where it comes from

From pickle + back (“mild drink, chaser”). Coined 2006 by Reggie Cunningham of The Bushwick Country Club bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry pickleback (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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