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  • noun South Africa soft drink

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Examples

  • I'm an Australian currently living in South Africa where the preferred term is "cool drink" - often said as one word - "cooldrink".

    doggdot.us 2008

  • One of them held a plastic cooldrink bottle aloft containing a murky brown liquid from which a rag protruded and which he claimed was a petrol bomb.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • People assumed I had come to sell biscuits and cooldrink pop…or soda…or coke…whatever.

    Link to AJ's Blog Jade 2008

  • People assumed I had come to sell biscuits and cooldrink pop…or soda…or coke…whatever.

    Archive 2008-11-01 Jade 2008

  • A sweet and cooldrink trader, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, said she did not expect business to be good.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • He said consumers typically bought small quantities and often stored them in milk or juice bottles from which children may - and often do - accidentally ingest the paraffin, thinking the clear liquid was cooldrink or milk.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

  • Just before the lunch adjournment Squires thundered at a journalist for "refreshing" himself with a cooldrink in court A.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • The principle was already being successfully applied in the case of cooldrink bottles, and this model could quite easily be expanded to include other recyclable items.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • It would be out of line for an official to accept anything more than a cooldrink and a sandwich from a developer during a long, hot site visit, the Roodefontein corruption trial in George heard on

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • He admitted that the front companies had "experimented" with putting poisons and other substances into cooldrink and beer, but denied ever supplying agents directly with these "laced" drinks.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

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