controller n also control. The government-appointed Board of Liquor Control or one of its retail stores.
   1929 BURKE [21] "Three Bottles a Week": You must go to the Control / In sun shine or rain / And wait for three weeks / For to take down your name. T 257-66 They didn't buy beer them days; there was no controller's beer. They always brewed their own. P 245-76 I'll try to get down to the controller's and pick up a bottle of rum.

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