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seltzer

seltzer

2 4.0
A light fizzy drink that contains alcohol and often has fruit flavor
  • noun
  • /ˈsɛltzər/
  • UK
translation icon : seltzer alcohólico
  • It's Corona's hard seltzer in the BlackBerry lime flavor.
  • a hard seltzer

But the front seat, they're just drinking like hard seltzer.

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Examples

  • Yes, a vodka seltzer, please.

  • Now onto those flavored seltzers a few people mentioned.

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  • - You already had one Seltzer bottle.

  • Let's stick to the seltzer.

  • - Wanna get some seltzers?

  • I leaned against the bar and nursed glasses of seltzer.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • Heath and I were busy getting lit with our euphoric seltzers that we were drinking.

  • Fallow is clutching a whiskey decanter and a seltzer bottle.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • So I am hereby raising my seltzer to my laudatory sister and herewith making amends.

  • I ordered a refreshing seltzer with my lunch at the beach bar.

Synonyms

spritzer
vsseltzer
11 6.1

A cold drink of wine mixed with sparkling water

is made from fermented sugar or malt rather than from wine

Compounds

5 3.4

A fizzy tablet you dissolve in water to ease heartburn, upset stomach and minor pain

A fizzy medicine that helps an upset stomach and eases headaches

How Alcoholic

spirits
1 3.0
wine
1.0
beer
1.0
seltzer
  • UK
2 4.0
near beer
  • Archaic
1 5.1
soft drink
40 1.0

Surface Forms

seltzer singular
seltzers plural

Etymology

The drink called seltzer, and the variant hard seltzer, gets its name from the same German spring but adds 'alcohol' and flavor to fizzy water, so seltzer here means a light, fizzy alcoholic drink.