Thesaurus:alcoholic beverage
English
Noun
Sense: beverage containing more than a trace amount of alcohol
Synonyms
- adult beverage
- alcohol [⇒ thesaurus]
- bevvy (slang)
- booze (slang)
- carouse
- drink [⇒ thesaurus] (in context)
- grog (Australia, NZ)
- libation
- liquor (chiefly US)
- lush
- nightcap
- potation
- potent potable
- sauce
- shot
- strong-water (obsolete)
- tiddly (slang)
- tincture
- tipple
Hyponyms
- ale
- apéritif
- aperitif
- beer [⇒ thesaurus]
- brandy
- cider
- cocktail
- everclear (high-proof alcoholic beverage)
- eye-opener (to pep the drinker up, especially in the morning)
- firewater (high-proof alcoholic beverage)
- gin
- grog
- hair of the dog (believed by some to mitigate or prevent hangover)
- homebrew
- hot toddy
- liqueur
- mead
- mixed drink
- pick-me-up (to pep the drinker up)
- rotgut [⇒ thesaurus]
- rum
- sherry
- tequila
- toddy
- vermouth
- vodka
- whisky
- wine [⇒ thesaurus]
Hypernyms
Meronyms
Holonyms
- bender
- booze
- boozeroo (NZ, Slang)
- carousal
- carouse
- drinkathon
- liquid lunch
- session
- tippling
Metonyms
See also
- Category:Alcoholic beverages
Further reading
- “959. drunkenness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “liquor” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.