Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Medicated liquor; drink prepared with medicinal ingredients.

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Examples

  • As if the diet-drink situation wasn't bad enough, even more devastating for me personally were the recently released photos of Jared the Subway guy.

    The Men Who Stare at Nachos 2009

  • They have picked up a few of my habits -- a love of full-calorie Coca-Cola (an anomaly with their diet-drink parents) and a love of Easter-egg hunts.

    Enjoying the View From the Back Seat 2007

  • He wrote out a recipe for a purging diet-drink and an herbal tea to soak my feet in.

    Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe Sandra Gulland 2000

  • He wrote out a recipe for a purging diet-drink and an herbal tea to soak my feet in.

    Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe Sandra Gulland 2000

  • Well, good woman, go to the pantry, get your bellyful of victuals, then I 'll give you a receipt of diet-drink for your husband.

    The Beaux-Stratagem George Farquhar

  • Nature's own bird which lives on buds and diet-drink.

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Charles Herbert Sylvester

  • The wicket closes on the candidates, and their friends adjourn to the "Retail Establishment" opposite, to _go the odd man_ and pledge their anxious companions in dissector's diet-drink -- _vulgo_, half-and-half.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 20, 1841 Various

  • Physicians formerly recommended highly a diet-drink made from Oats, about which

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • On entering the faubourg St. Marceau, I saw nothing but dirty stinking streets, filthy black houses, an air of slovenliness and poverty, beggars, carters, butchers, cries of diet-drink and old hats.

    The Confessions of J J Rousseau Rousseau, Jean Jacques 1896

  • And bottle ale is a drink of Satan's, a diet-drink of Satan's devised to puff us up, and make us swell in this latter age of vanity; as the smoke of tobacco to keep us in mist and error: but the fleshly woman, which you call Ursula, is above all to be avoided, having the marks upon her of the three enemies of man -- the world, as being in the

    History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange 1873

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