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liquor

[lik-er or, for 3, lik-wawr]

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noun

a distilled or spirituous beverage, as brandy or whiskey, as distinguished from a fermented beverage, as wine or beer.

any liquid substance, as broth from cooked meats or vegetables.

Pharmacology. solution (def. 6).

a solution of a substance, especially a concentrated one used in the industrial arts.

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verb (used with object)

Informal. to furnish or ply with liquor to drink (often followed by up).

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verb (used without object)

Informal. to drink large quantities of liquor (often followed by up).

Origin:
1175–1225; < Latin: a liquid, orig. liquidity (liqu(ēre) to be liquid + -or -or¹); replacing Middle English lic(o)ur < Old French (French liqueur) < Latin liquōrem, accusative of liquor

Related forms

liq·uor·y, adjective

an·ti·liq·uor, adjective

Can be confused: liqueur, liquor.

Synonyms
2. juice, drippings.

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Example Sentences

Many dealers have sold liquor without a local license, and the.

Some colleges and universities have banned alcohol outright, while others have outlawed hard liquor.

The local priest, plied with liquor all morning by happy.

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Many dealers have sold liquor without a local license, and the.

Some colleges and universities have banned alcohol outright, while others have outlawed hard liquor.

The local priest, plied with liquor all morning by happy.

In this image, he's celebrating the day and also staying warm by drinking the famous orange liquor called deKuyper.

People can make their own liquor in their own stills, their own beer and their own wine.

Reserva enters the big leagues of liquor both in taste and in price.

Dolese saves liquor or soda bottles that have interesting colors and shapes.

Liquor can only be bought from state-owned and controlled stores.

Reid, liquor dealers, were sentenced to six months each in jail.

The liquor gives it a better flavor than orange juice.

Outside a liquor store, a policeman pats down a suspect.

He'd heard reports of pet kinkajous raiding owners' liquor cabinets, so he tried fruity peach schnapps.

For anything else you go to the liquor store across the lot.

Today, making your own liquor is as illegal as ever, and a lot less lucrative.

Partying young liquor kings give social drinking a new meaning.

Send people out to a liquor store or grocery store for more ice.

Cigarettes, liquor and guns are among other goods smuggled.

Add your favorite clear liquor until the coin reappears.

He has corresponded with other amateur liquor historians.

Unlike legal firms with liquor licenses, there is no disincentive to sell to minors.

All evidence points towards that the voters take the money and liquor but vote whomever they like.

Soft drinks, beer and wine are included in the high rates and hard liquor is charged separately.

And of course you go to the liquor store to pick up some beer.

Appleseed was really a liquor distributor rather than a free spirit with a pot on his head.

Liquor bottles filled with bear paws and tiger penises decorate the walls.

In the camp store the first section you come to through the turnstile is the liquor department.

Lake took to the challenge of exposing fakes with the same zeal he's shown in hoarding miniature liquor bottles.

For the same return on a kilo, a boot legger would have needed a freight train of canadian liquor.

I'd rather go into a liquor store and buy a magazine than look at those images on my computer screen," she says.

Policemen invited to maintain order at these occasions are paid with cash, good food and liquor.

Also known as unsweetened chocolate or chocolate liquor.

Let me stress that marijuana is safer and more enjoyable then liquor.

Bootleggers smuggled legit booze, but could also get pretty creative in concocting home-brewed liquor.

Liquor companies know this, but do not want the public to adapt and adopt a safer smarter way.

The game has animated liquor and music ads transitioning smoothly between sessions in the trivia contest.

But if they hold their liquor too well, you may wake up regretting.

The upcoming trip will take care of that, but first, a visit to the liquor store.

Namely, hard liquor is much more profitable to produce and easier to distribute in the black market.

My mobile is my place of business, my social network, my entire life folded up into a device the size of a liquor flask.

Good sake tastes delicious while bad sake tastes lousy, the same as baijiu and the rest of the liquor you're offered.

We're also not going to have them knock off a liquor store.

Then, the distribution of liquor was turned over to a whole new group of criminal entrepreneurs.

Liquor is poured down her neck and exits through her crotch.

Her husband was unconscious after too many pills and too much liquor.

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World English Dictionary

liquor (ˈlɪkə)

—n
1.	any alcoholic drink, esp spirits, or such drinks collectively
2.	any liquid substance, esp that in which food has been cooked
3.	pharmacol a solution of a pure substance in water
4.	brewing warm water added to malt to form wort
5.	in liquor drunk; intoxicated

—vb
6.	brewing to steep (malt) in warm water to form wort; mash

[C13: via Old French from Latin, from liquēre to be liquid]

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Word Origin & History

liquor

early 13c., likur "any matter in a liquid state," from O.Fr. licour, from L. liquorem (nom. liquor) "liquid, liquidity," from liquere "be fluid." Sense of "fermented or distilled drink" (especially wine) first recorded c.1300. To liquor up "get drunk" is from 1845.

American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

liquor liq·uor (lĭk'ər)
n.

An aqueous solution, especially of a medicinal substance.
An alcoholic beverage made by distillation rather than by fermentation.
(lī'kwôr, lĭk'wôr) In anatomical nomenclature, a term for any of several body fluids.

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