Bogus

·noun A liquor made of rum and molasses.

II. Bogus ·adj Spurious; fictitious; sham;

— a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit.

bogus
A liquor made of rum and molasses. ...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
bogus money
Counterfeit silver coin. A few years since, a large quantity of this coin was in circulation at the ...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.