club soda
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1.8
- noun
- /klʌb ˈsoʊdə/
- US
:
agua con gas
- At the party, I enjoyed a refreshing glass of club soda with lemon.
- club soda with lime
- a cup of club soda
- drink club soda
Examples
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Two club sodas, please.
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The waiter returned with Gillian's club soda and a tiny silver basket of bread.
Fiction book (2001) -
We're gonna get her a club soda first.
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Oh, and a straight club soda.
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We got any club soda?
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Dawn, would you get Robert a club soda, please?
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-I'll have a club soda.
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- We ordered club sodas, sir.
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Yeah, can I get a cranberry club soda?
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Mr. Cantry ordered a club soda with a twist of lemon.
Fiction book (1997)
Synonyms
18
3.7
Fizzy water with natural or added bubbles
9
1.0
Water with small bubbles that make it fizzy
4
1.2
A clear fizzy drink made by adding gas to water, often used as a mixer
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2.3
Water that has tiny bubbles of gas and is drunk plain or used as a mixer
How Fizzy
Surface Forms
Morphology
club + soda
The head noun 'soda' clearly signals a carbonated beverage, so a learner who knows 'soda' will infer that 'club soda' is a kind of soda or fizzy drink. However, 'club' functions as a type/brand-like modifier whose contribution (minerals, unflavored mixer use) is not transparently predictable from the word 'club', so the precise sense would likely require prior exposure.
Etymology
The name club soda may come from old private clubs where people drank special fizzy soda water with added minerals. Since that water was served as a drink and as a 'mixer' for alcohol, the name stuck and now means carbonated water with minerals used as a drink or 'mixer'.