script n also scrip. Doctor's prescription, esp to obtain alcohol for medicinal purposes during the Prohibition era.
1917 Daily News 19 Oct "The Trouble a Scrip Gave": A man called on a Doctor / A scrip to write him down./ 'A bottle full of whisky,'/ So wrote the kindly D. 1925 Dial Notes v, 341 Scrip. Prescription.
1964 Daily News 11 May, p. 4 Doctors would give them a 'script' (short for prescription) to enable them to obtain a bottle for medicinal purposes.
