sloe
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9.8
- noun
- /sloʊ/
:
endrina
- After the harvest, we picked a basket of sloe fruits from the blackthorn bushes.
- sloe gin
- sloe gin fizz
Examples
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Okay, two sloe gin fizzes comin' up.
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I haven't had a taste of that sloe gin of yours this year.
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Do we even have sloe gin?
Fiction book (2000) -
Yeah, we'll have a couple of sloe gin fizzes.
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Let's go get a sloe gin fizz.
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I'd like a sloe gin fizz, please.
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We made it back to camp and celebrated with sloe gin at the enlisted club.
Fiction book (1990) -
They come in here just about every night, order a couple of sloe gin fizzes.
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To celebrate peace and other more common conditions, the enlisted club announced that drinks were a dime; sloe gin was the pleasure of the warriors that night.
Fiction book (1990) -
He ordered a vodka gimlet and a sloe gin fizz.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
A thorny bush from Europe and Asia with small dark blue fruits
Compounds
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8.2
A sweet red alcoholic drink made by soaking small dark fruits from the blackthorn bush in gin
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sloe comes from an old English word slāh that was the name for the 'blackthorn' and its small dark berries, so sloe means the sour little fruit often used to make sloe gin.