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American chasing whisky in tragedy? (5)

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I believe the answer is:

drama

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'tragedy?' is the definition.
(tragedy is a kind of drama)

'american chasing whisky in' is the wordplay.
'american' becomes 'Am' (abbreviation in some contexts).
'chasing whisky' becomes 'dra' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'am' put inside 'dra' is 'DRAMA'.

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(Other definitions for drama that I've seen before include "Stage play - turmoil" , "Play - big emotional scene" , "Plays as branch of literature" , "Serious play" , "Emotional sequence of events (made out of a crisis?)" .)

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