alcoholic beverage
Noun
Meaning
a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent
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alcohol (or drink) ruined him
Adkins allegedly had a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage and displayed bloodshot and glossy eyes and was incoherent.
According to Ortega, the IMF does not see things the same way, and has not realized what has happened in the tobacco and alcoholic beverage sectors where the highest taxes have produced a decrease in collections.
In another citation, ALE Agent J.D. Dean says Luckey, “did possess non-taxed paid alcohol (moonshine) on the premises of Thelma’s restaurant, an alcoholic beverage on which the taxes imposed by the United States/North Carolina had not been paid.”
Dexter begins to infect the Norfolk locals while Calvert begins to trade in the extremely revered "Norfolk Tears", an alcoholic beverage, coming into opposition with Syrinx.
Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is a novel about Oceania, that also offers its people a recreational substance, but the substance is an alcoholic beverage that to put it mildly is unpleasant.