Cryptic crossword clue
Original shots, say, drunk by locals 9

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word NEGATIVES

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What does NEGATIVES mean?

NEGATIVES noun
  1. Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto
  2. A right of veto.
  3. An image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse.
  4. (grammar) A word that indicates negation.
  5. A negative quantity.
  6. : A rep performed with weight in which the muscle begins at maximum contraction and is slowly extended; a movement performed using only the eccentric phase of muscle movement.
  7. The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
NEGATIVES verb
  1. To refuse; to veto.
  2. To contradict.
  3. To disprove.
  4. To make ineffective; to neutralize.

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