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hard liquor

noun

Etymology

Clarification of the intended sense of liquor, which originally had a wider sense of application to many liquids and remains polysemous regarding distilled alcoholic drinks versus nondistilled ones (such as beer and wine).

Definitions

  1. Synonym of liquor (strict sense)

    Synonym of liquor (strict sense): a beverage that has been distilled to give it a high alcohol content (high proof, high ABV).

    • Various hard liquors have become cultural touchstones, as bourbon in Kentucky, vodka in Russia, and baijiu in China.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hard liquor. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA