Shots

[joanne0012]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "jaffa276" <jaffa276 at y...> wrote:
> 
> I was reading today about a hero who 'owed allegiance only to a $20 
> bill and a fifth of bourbon' the fifth I assume referred to 1/5 of a 
> gill that used to be used in the UK as a single measure of spirits 
> until they introduced all this metric stuff and nicked a few 
> millilitres off a shot.  A gill being 1/4 pint, a single was 1/20th 
> pint thus 28.4ml (now 25ml to a single).  

A "fifth" in the US is a fifth of a gallon, a good-sized bottle.