liquor
IPA: ɫˈɪkɝ
noun
- (obsolete) A liquid, a fluid.
- (obsolete) A drinkable liquid.
- A liquid obtained by cooking meat or vegetables (or both).
- (UK, cooking) A parsley sauce commonly served with traditional pies and mash.
- (chiefly US, Canada, Australia) Strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation; more broadly, any alcoholic drink.
- In process industry, a liquid in which a desired reaction takes place, e.g. pulping liquor is a mixture of chemicals and water which breaks wood into its components, thus facilitating the extraction of cellulose.
- A liquid in which something has been steeped.
verb
- (intransitive) To drink liquor, usually to excess.
- (transitive) To cause someone to drink liquor, usually to excess.
- (obsolete, transitive) To grease.
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Examples of "liquor" in Sentences
- They crystallized the liquor.
- The liquor has a piquant flavor.
- High spirited women ransack liquor shop.
- He anethetized his enemy with the liquor.
- The mother liquor is recycled to the reactor.
- A Vendita Frittole is a fritter and liquor shop.
- But the scheme obviously required the sales of hard liquor.
- Fuller returned to the city to replenish the liquor supply.
- It is the first museum in the world dedicated to this liquor.
- Adulteration of cheap liquor by methyl alcohol resulted in deaths.
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