spec. Intoxicating alcoholic beverage. Hence in various phrases: Indulgence to excess in intoxicating liquor; habits of intemperance, drunkenness. in…

Liquid for drinking; beverage, drink. Now almost exclusively spec., a drink produced by fermentation or distillation. spirituous liquor, liquor…

colloquial. Drink; liquor. (The first quot. 1350 may mean a drinking-vessel.) About 1600 a word of vagabonds' cant.

Formerly used in Biblical passages, or allusions to them, alongside of ciser, cisar, cyser, etc., to render Latin sicera of the Vulgate ‘strong…

A stupefying or soporific drink. Obsolete. (Probably in many instances, the juice or infusion of Belladonna: see 2.)

Intoxicating liquor, strong drink.

By metonymy: The contents of a barrel; intoxicating liquor. Cf. ‘the bottle’.

Intoxicating liquor; alcoholic drinks generally. Also: spec. drink with a high alcohol content, especially spirits.

With distinguishing word or phrase: strong distilled alcoholic liquor; a type of this. Now archaic and historical except in firewater, n. 2, water of…

Drink, liquor. ? Obsolete.

Drink, liquor for drinking; esp. strong drink. Also attributive (quot. 1617; or perhaps there the verb-stem in combination).

Alcoholic drink having the colour of amber; spec. beer. Australian and New Zealand in later use. Cf. sense B. 1b and amber nectar, n.

potent liquor; hence transferred one who supplies it.

an alcoholic drink made from malt, liquor.

Copious or heavy drinking; liquor, esp. when drunk to excess; †a draught or swig (of liquor).

In allusive use.

Something that is lapped. slang. Drink, liquor in general.

(a personification of) barley, or of alcoholic drink made from barley.

A pottle of wine or other alcoholic drink; drink, liquor. Now rare.

(cf. upsy Friese, 1b(b)).

upsy Friese Intoxicating liquor. rare. (Cf. 3.)

Intoxicating drink generally, tipple.

slang. Any of various kinds of alcoholic spirit. Obsolete.

Drink, liquor, ‘booze’. Obsolete.

slang (now rare). Strong or alcoholic drink (originally as refreshment for fiddle-players); a drink of this nature. Cf. rosin, v. 2.

slang. Spirituous or intoxicating liquor.

Strong drink; tipple. slang. Obsolete.

Drink, liquor.

A colourless volatile flammable liquid which is naturally produced in aqueous solution by the fermentation of sugars, and which is the intoxicating…

the right stuff: (a) slang something that is just what is required; spec. alcoholic drink; money; (b) colloquial (chiefly U.S.) the necessary…

An intoxicating substance; esp. an alcoholic drink or a drug.

Liquor, drink.

see quot.

spec. With reference to alcoholic drink or (in later use) a drug regarded as evil or harmful. Chiefly with the, and frequently in apposition…

North American. Intoxicating liquor in general.

colloquial (originally U.S.). Alcoholic liquor; an alcoholic drink. Frequently in what's your poison?: what drink would you like? See also to name (a…

Nautical slang. An alcoholic drink, esp. one of poor quality. Obsolete.

A name for various compounded intoxicating drinks; sometimes vaguely used for intoxicating drink in general.

Beer; liquor generally.

In collocation with other words, as wine and water (hence wine-and-watery adj.), wine(s) and spirit(s) (also attributive), wine and cheese (party,…

colloquial. Used ironically: any of various alcoholic drinks.

Originally and chiefly Scottish. Drink, a draught; esp. alcohol that is weak or poor in quality. Also: (in singular and plural) a bout of drinking…

In plural. Alcoholic drinks.

Alcoholic drink; esp. light ale. Now chiefly in jough y nollick: a warm spiced ale drunk at Christmas.

Chiefly U.S. Alcohol; spec. (illicit) alcoholic liquor. Frequently personified in early use.

Alcoholic liquor, spirits.

slang. Intoxicating drink. Cf. lotion, n. 1b, poison, n. 4.

spec. Applied to alcoholic drinks.

Alcoholic drink, chiefly beer; U.S. esp. spirits.

Drink; an alcoholic drink, esp. a ‘short’; on the tiddley: ‘in liquor’, intoxicated.

alcoholic drink, esp. beer.

slang. Alcoholic drink. Cf. medicine, n.1 7, poison, n. 4, tincture, n. 7c. Now somewhat rare.

Wine, spirits, or a drink prepared with them.

intoxicating liquor; (also) reddening of the nose caused by habitual drinking.

concrete. In plural (originally U.S.) Apparatus, equipment; trimming of a dress; the adjuncts to any dish, garnishing. Also (Australian slang)…

Liquor, drink. In modern use only slang; esp. in heavy-wet, malt liquor.

Australian slang. Alcohol; a bottle of beer; esp. in to run the rabbit: to procure alcohol, sometimes illegally. Now rare.

Liquor. Esp in on the shicker.

Strong liquor, or a drink of this.

In extended use, of a thing. U.S. slang. Powerful liquor; esp. illicitly distilled whiskey. Cf. earlier white mule n. at white, adj. n.compounds 1f…

intoxicating liquor.

= ruckus juice n. at ruckus, n. compounds.

alcoholic drink; = booze, n. 1b.

spec. that of the grape, made into wine. Also more generally, alcoholic liquor (U.S. slang).

alcoholic drink.

colloquial. Alcohol, esp. beer; alcoholic drink.

Alcoholic drink; liquor.

slang (originally U.S.). With the. Alcoholic drink. Cf. on the sauce at phrases 8.

Australian slang. Intoxicating liquor, esp. beer.

Australian and New Zealand colloquial. Alcoholic liquor, including beer.

alcoholic drink.