hardware

1. n. whiskey; potent liquor.

□ This hardware is enough to knock your socks off.

□ Pour me some of that hardware, will ya?

2. n. hard drugs or hard liquor.

□ No wine for me. Give me the hardware.

□ This hardware is pretty powerful.

3. n. a weapon; a gun. (Underworld and Western.)

□ I think I see your hardware showing.

□ Lefty keeps his hardware nder his mattress.

4. n. computer parts, as opposed to computer programs.

□ What kind of hardware are you running this program on?

□ The software is okay, so it must be the hardware that’s off.