schnapps

24 7.5

A strong clear alcoholic drink from Germany or Central Europe often flavored with fruit

noun
/ʃnæps/

: schnapps

For us it was Schnapps and M&Ms and Lethal Weapon 2.
bottle of schnapps
Peach schnapps

Examples

Then next step, you take your watermelon sweet and sour schnapps, and you take the little side, big little people.
So the first thing is that the stag's head comes off and it can be turned upside down like this to make a little schnapps cup.
Like that time we stayed up all night drinking Apple Schnapps and playing Tekken 2.

Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Now, I I have not partaken in schnapps during Hanukkah time, but Micah claims that he has.
It was your dad that grounded you for a year for stealing Peach Schnapps.

Warm Bodies (2013)
She's a bit lifeless, a pretty woman whose whole life is her daughter and a bottle of Peachtree Schnapps.

Fiction book (2000)
In a letter to Reinick dated 22 April 1849, he complained that the poet wrote of beer and wine in the tavern scene, but that he wished to emphasize "the bad liquor Fuse!, the Schnapps, which is a more appropriate sign of Anarchy."

Academic text (1991)
Sponsors included Seaman's Schnapps, Nigeria Television Authority (NTA), African Independent Television (AIT), and the main sponsor: MTN, Nigeria's leading telecommunication company.

Academic text (2009)
Julie faced a count of fourth-degree theft (a bottle of Schnapps), and I faced a whole fungus of charges stemming from a drunken drive I had taken on a three-wheeler.

Fiction book (1996)
She passed the bottle of Schnapps back to me after we toasted to our friendship.

Synonyms

liquor

vsschnapps

331 3.2

A strong alcoholic drink made by distilling, like whiskey or vodka

is a particular clear Central European drink sometimes flavored with fruit or herbs

brandy

vsschnapps

84 2.7

A strong alcoholic drink made from wine or fruit juice and often aged in wood

is clear and often unaged rather than being aged in wood

spirits

vsschnapps

17 3.0

Strong alcoholic drinks like whiskey, vodka, or gin

is a specific Central European clear drink often flavored with fruit or herbs

schnaps

vsschnapps

1 9.2

A strong alcoholic drink made from fruit, potatoes, or grain

is the Central European clear drink often flavored with fruit or herbs

How Strong

vodka

284 1.3

schnapps

24 7.5

liqueur

14 5.6

beer

∞ 1.0

wine

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

schnapps singular

schnappses plural

Etymology

Schnapps comes from the German word Schnaps, which is linked to schnappen meaning 'to snap' or 'to gulp'. So schnapps is easy to remember as a small, strong drink you might take in one quick 'snap', often a clear spirit flavored with fruit or herbs.