Home › Words › T › tanglefoottanglefoottanglefoot means low-quality whiskey, especially home-brewed.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, tanglefoot ranks #7,710 of 42,762 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom tangle + foot.nounLow-quality whiskey, especially home-brewed.e.g.“They never seemed to want anything, even at the sutler's store, though the Lord knows there wasn't much there they could want except tanglefoot and tobacco.” — 1891, Charles King, Starlight Ranch:A sticky substance put at the base of trees or other plants to trap insects and prevent them from climbing up.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).