hard liquor
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3.9
- noun
- /hɑrd ˈlɪkər/
- US
:
licor fuerte
- Hard liquor became popular because it was more concentrated and thus cheaper to smuggle.
This goes with one of my don't which is don't drink hard liquor or beer on weekdays.
- This goes with one of my don't which is don't drink hard liquor or beer on weekdays.
- I'm on the Paleo diet, so don't eat wheat, lentils or dairy, and then of course, don't drink hard liquor or beer on the weekdays.
- Here in Wisconsin, a lot of our gas stations will sell beer and wine and even hard liquor.
- Now, the one thing I didn't tell you before about tailgates is that they don't have hard liquor in there.
- And so this would be one or two glasses of wine, one or two glasses of beer, or one or two ounces of hard liquor.
- You know, we would drink beer and, and sometimes hard liquor and get, you know, kind of wild at parties.
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But I never did see anybody get used to hard liquor so fast.
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Ma, you never drink hard liquor.
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You know, we would drink beer and, and sometimes hard liquor and get, you know, kind of wild at parties.
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How long have you been drinking hard liquor?
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You must be in desperate need of hard liquor.
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We don't keep hard liquor in the house.
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I haven't had hard liquor in years.
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To make hard liquor more palatable, cocktails were created.
Blog text (32) -
Russia's thirst for hard liquor seems to have reached dizzying new heights in the late Soviet era, and then again in the early post-Communist era.
Academic text (2005) -
At the party, we decided to serve cocktails made with various types of hard liquor.
Synonyms
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1.0
A drink that can make people drunk, like beer or wine
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3.2
A strong alcoholic drink made by distilling, like whiskey or vodka
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2.8
A drink with alcohol that people make from grain and leave in wooden barrels to age
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7.6
Alcohol that people have at parties or with friends
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3.1
A strong alcoholic drink made from sugarcane or its syrup
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2.7
A strong alcoholic drink made from wine or fruit juice and often aged in wood
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2.5
A strong alcoholic drink made from grains or fruits
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3.0
A drink that contains alcohol, like beer or wine
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9.9
Alcohol made illegally, often tasting harsh
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8.4
Alcohol made and sold illegally, often secretly
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1.4
A drink that contains alcohol, like beer or wine
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3.4
An alcoholic drink that is distilled, like whisky or vodka
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9.0
Illegal strong alcohol made by distilling corn mash secretly
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3.6
A strong alcoholic drink like whiskey or vodka
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3.0
Strong alcoholic drinks like whiskey, vodka, or gin
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'liquor' denotes distilled spirits and 'hard' functions as a modifier indicating strength/high alcohol content, so a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to strong distilled alcoholic drinks (whiskey, vodka, rum). This modifier+noun pattern is non-idiomatic and cross-linguistically common, making the expression transparent to B1 learners.
Etymology
The term hard liquor comes from hard meaning 'strong' and liquor meaning an alcoholic drink. These drinks are made in a way that makes them much stronger than beer or wine, so hard liquor means 'very strong alcoholic drinks'.