Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A drink containing the extracted juices of various roots, as of dock, dandelion, sarsaparilla, and sassafras.
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Examples
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“Do you want to go to the root-beer place on the highway?”
The Convict and Other Stories James Lee Burke 2010
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She closed the truck door, and we banged over the ruts and drove out on the highway toward the root-beer stand.
The Convict and Other Stories James Lee Burke 2010
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Up ahead we saw the lights of the root-beer stand and the cars and pickups with metal trays on the windows parked in the gravel under the canvas awning.
The Convict and Other Stories James Lee Burke 2010
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Yesterday I kissed a root-beer skinned boy named Jonas who said he'd meet me at the pool again today, one o'clock.
Time Travel 2010
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The billboards and the huge signs painted on the sides of barns flashed by him, the drive-in root-beer stand and the trailer park, then the prefabricated houses in a bulldozed field, and he tried to call back into memory what that part of the county had looked like before, but the convertible was going too fast.
The Convict and Other Stories James Lee Burke 2010
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Flavor: coffee-like with a strong smoky sourness; sasparilla root-beer; a strong woodiness in the finish
Archive 2009-10-01 2009
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In addition to lodging, guests will receive room-service delivery of root-beer floats, two adult and two children's tickets to the Boston Children's Museum, free meals for kids under 12 at the hotel's 606 Congress restaurant, a free in-room movie, and use of the health club and lap pool without charge.
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In the past decade, root-beer manufacturers have introduced more upscale products in an effort to draw consumers back to the old-school brew.
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The conical item, I think, was a wax-covered root-beer dispenser.
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Flavor: coffee-like with a strong smoky sourness; sasparilla root-beer; a strong woodiness in the finish
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