Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A beverage made of beer or ale mixed with lemonade, ginger ale, or another soft drink.

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  • noun uncountable A drink made by mixing beer and lemonade.
  • noun countable A glass of this drink.

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Examples

  • A shandy is a part-beer (typically a light, sessionable, lager) and part lemonade (or ginger beer).

    Great Taste In Review 2009

  • A shandy is a part-beer (typically a light, sessionable, lager) and part lemonade (or ginger beer).

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • Mr. Policeman, I went to England with my grandma last summer, and I had a can of shandy, which is beer mixed with lemonade.

    Going Too Far Jennifer Echols 2009

  • A beer and a shandy were her limit and I know we dont drink much anymore but come on.

    Blogposts | guardian.co.uk 2010

  • A beer and a shandy were her limit and I know we dont drink much anymore but come on.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • And maybe on a very hot day a shandy, which is a mixture of beer and lemonade.

    Blog updates 2009

  • It's a lemonade-ish beer a "shandy" is typically half lemonade, half wheat beer that goes down well bitterly cold.

    Archive 2007-08-01 2007

  • It's a lemonade-ish beer a "shandy" is typically half lemonade, half wheat beer that goes down well bitterly cold.

    It's The End of Summer 2007

  • Like "just A moment," the album sees the act expanding the posthardcore sounds that dominated their early releases. "shandy" starts as an experimental pop song filled with dizzying distorted noises and then morphs into a dramatic rocker. "this is is this?" is the disc's most dynamic composition.

    Japan News latest RSS headlines - The Japan News.Net 2010

  • He called it "shandy," and I felt as though the lemon soda was being punished.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

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  • Variants include beer with sprite

    November 26, 2007

  • *cough*

    November 26, 2007