home-brew

[ hohm-broo ]

noun
  1. beer or other alcoholic beverage made at home.

Origin of home-brew

1
First recorded in 1850–55

Other words from home-brew

  • home-brewed, adjective

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How to use home-brew in a sentence

  • With us in Scotland it was good oatcakes and home-brew––and the air.

    The Eye of Dread | Payne Erskine

British Dictionary definitions for home-brew

home-brew

noun
  1. a beer or other alcoholic drink brewed at home rather than commercially

  2. Canadian informal a professional football player who was born in Canada and is not an import

Derived forms of home-brew

  • home-brewed, adjective

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