heart starter

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English

Etymology

From heart +‎ starter.

Noun

heart starter (plural heart starters)

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