"who-hit-John" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1993, Jim Miller, Border Marshal, page 16",
          "text": "The bottle of Who-Hit-John was only a quarter full now and he was giving serious thought to taking another swallow of the stuff, as harsh as it might be on a man's system.",
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          "ref": "2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 441",
          "text": "Our leader, Colonel Sibley, found the march considerable boring, and a few weeks into it, he retired to the bed of his wagon, accompanied by two prostitutes and a barrel of who-hit-John.",
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        "Hard liquor; whiskey."
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        "(US, slang) Hard liquor; whiskey."
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    {
      "word": "who shot John"
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