strong drink

Noun

Meaning

strong drink (uncountable)

Synonym of liquor, an alcoholic beverage, particularly a distilled beverage with a high alcohol content.
Sure, beer is alcoholic, sure, but I wouldn't really call it a strong drink. Maybe a really strong IPA would count, though.

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Synonyms

cooper growler schnapps sixer alcohol larry juice liquor rum potable booze John Barleycorn ethanol whisky intoxicant
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Antonyms

coke aqua chaser soda lymph lemonade
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Hypernyms

alcohol intoxicant inebriant alcoholic beverage alcoholic drink

Hyponyms

brandy arak schnapps mescal gin rum

Examples

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss. Robert A. Heinlein

When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast. Winston Churchill

What I need... is a strong drink and a peer group. Douglas Adams

After her stint in NYC she goes back to her home in a suburb of to spend the rest of her summer and here she nurses her depression like a strong drink. Source: Internet

Wine is seen as a "mocker" and strong drink is "raging"; however, simple consumption of beer or the very common roots wine are not systematically a part of Rastafari culture this way or that. Source: Internet

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord; he will not drink any wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit from the very hour of his birth, and will reconcile many of the Israelites to the Lord their God. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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