planter's punch
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7.1
- noun
- /ˈplæntərz pʌnʧ/
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planter's punch
- Your Planter's punch, Miss.
Examples
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A Planter's punch?
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My husband had something like a planter's punch in a long, sweaty glass, and maybe I did, too.
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After a long day at the beach, we enjoyed a refreshing planter's punch made with fresh lime juice and rum.
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At the summer party, everyone was sipping planter's punch, a delicious mix of rum and fruit juices.
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She mixed a planter's punch for the picnic, combining rum, sugar, and a splash of lemon juice.
Synonyms
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7.0
A cold cocktail made with rum and lime or lemon
A drink made with rum mixed with lime and other sweet or sour ingredients
A mixed drink of rum, sugar, water, often with lemon juice
How Strong
Surface Forms
Morphology
planter's + punch
A B1 learner who knows 'planter' (someone associated with planting or a plantation) and 'punch' (a mixed drink) will readily infer that 'planter's punch' names a type of punch associated with planters — i.e., a cocktail. The exact recipe (rum, lime, sugar, bitters) is lexical/practical detail, but the core meaning 'a kind of mixed alcoholic drink' is transparently derived from the constituents.
Etymology
Planter's punch comes from plantation life, where a planter, a person who owned a plantation, would mix a simple rum punch of fruit, sugar, and lime for workers and guests. One popular story says this easy fruit-and-rum 'cocktail' kept people refreshed, so the name stuck and today planter's punch means a rum-based mixed drink.