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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A nonalcoholic drink similar to ginger ale but flavored with fermented ginger.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An effervescing beverage made by fermenting ginger, cream-of-tartar, and sugar with yeast and water.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable A
fermented butnon-alcoholic drink flavoured withginger . - noun countable A glass or drink of ginger beer.
- adjective Cockney rhyming slang
queer (ie, homosexual).
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- noun carbonated slightly alcoholic drink flavored with fermented ginger
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vendingmachine commented on the word ginger beer
Odd differences between the wording of ginger beer:
n. a mild beer impregnated with ginger.
n. An effervescing beverage made by fermenting ginger, cream-of-tartar, and sugar with yeast and water.
July 23, 2015
qroqqa commented on the word ginger beer
Different products. It's traditionally an overly-sweet drink for children, but recently an alcoholic ginger-flavoured beer was brought out by Crabbie's. It's very good, not too sweet, and it's not mild either, it's a respectable strength. It's not the first beer with ginger flavouring: Badger's Blandford Flyer is also very good, but somehow I wouldn't call that <i>ginger beer</i>.
July 23, 2015
kalayzich commented on the word ginger beer
oed definition
a. An aerated drink made of cream of tartar, lemon juice, sugar, yeast, and water, and flavoured with ginger.
Macquarie dictionary definition
noun a non-alcoholic carbonated drink of water, sugar, yeast, etc., flavoured with ginger.
August 14, 2015