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heart starter

noun

Etymology

From heart + starter.

  1. derived from *(s)ter-✻ — “to be stiff”
  2. inherited from *sturtijan✻ — “to startle, move, set in motion”
  3. inherited from styrtan — “to leap up, start”
  4. inherited from sterten — “to leap up suddenly, rush out”
  5. suffixed as starter — “start + er”
  6. compounded as heart starter — “heart + starter”

Definitions

  1. A defibrillator.

  2. An alcoholic drink, especially one taken early in the day.

    • Drunken people did not make good witnesses […], disappearing for hours at a time down the pub for more heart-starters when they should have been sitting like solid citizens in the court room.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA