ouzo

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Popular Xs include black Sambuca, ouzo, and any pre-mixed cocktail based on Baileys Irish Cream, especially if it's a generic copy thereof.

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  • The generations came together at a party given by Milos and my mother, the music was eardrum-shattering and blood-quickening, and the champagne, ouzo, and retsina flowed like water. —  The Luxembourg Run
  • Sweating through the day, and every now and then getting a whiff of ouzo and wanting to administer a tactile. —  PEAS ON TOAST
  • While last night was the free admission night, the greasy, delicious meat of the festival is still to come, with today and Sunday offering authentic Greek cooking demonstrations, Greek theatre, and enough ouzo and revelry to make Dionysus blush. —  LAist
  • Top off with a Hellenic beer from the beer garden or wine and ouzo from one of the many tasting stations, and your night is about to get a whole lot better, while your heart beats a little slower. —  LAist
  • When I finally left the 5 degree Fahrenheit weather in Ithaca behind to study abroad in Greece, I believed that I would spend my time enjoying the sun during the day and drinking ouzo at night. —  Stories from The Sun
 

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