英和和英

名詞

heart starter (複数形 heart starters)

1. A defibrillator.
2. (Australia) An alcoholic drink, especially one taken early in the day.
   • 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo 2012, p. 155:

     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.