kill-me-quick, noun

slang. Especially in township English: a potent alcoholic drink made of sour porridge, bread, syrup, brown sugar, yeast, and bran. Also attributive. Cf. mbamba.
1948 E. Hellmann Rooiyard 48At the present time babaton comes first in popularity, with shimeya or shimeyani as close second.
c1948 H. Tracey Lalela Zulu 69These potent drinks are special concoctions known to the Zulus by the speed of their action. ‘Kill-me-quick’ they say will make you drunk in a few minutes.
1952 Drum June 10Africans..are not allowed to buy wine in the bottle-stores; so they either get Coloured workers to buy it for them, or brew skokiaan or ‘Kill-me-quick’ for their weekend drinking.
1963 L.F. Freed Crime in S. Afr. 204The concoctions which are sold to Natives in our large urban centres include ‘isigomfana’ (‘kill me quick’), ‘chechisa’ (hurry),..and others.
1968 Cole & Flaherty House of Bondage 140For..the oppressed and rootless of the cities who trudge from day to day without hope, drinking is a fast escape...The name of one popular concoction is ‘Kill Me Quick’.
1989 Reader’s Digest Illust. Hist. of S. Afr. 355Drinking skokiaan and isiqatavika (‘kill me quick’) in order to forget the drabness of life in urban ghettos.
1992 Daily News 14 Sept. 1It is called Indiza,..one of the ‘kill me quick’ group of alcoholic drinks..produced by inventive shebeen queens, and..rumoured sometimes to include additives such as methylated spirits and battery acid.
a potent alcoholic drink made of sour porridge, bread, syrup, brown sugar, yeast, and bran. Also attributive.
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