heart starter

English

Etymology

From heart +‎ starter.

Noun

heart starter (plural heart starters)

1. A defibrillator.
2. (Australia) An alcoholic drink, especially one taken early in the day.
   • 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 155:

     Drunken people did not make good witnesses […], disappearing for hours at a time down the pub for more heart-starters when they should have been sitting like solid citizens in the court room.