Definitions

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  • adjective Without beer, lacking beer

Etymologies

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beer +‎ -less

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Examples

  • When the opening chords of T-Pain's "Can't Believe It" streamed across her body, Jen tossed her beerless arm upwards yelling "whoo!" and gyrating wildly to the beat.

    ... and I liked it! 2009

  • Plus you have a dandy party stash of 25 buck kegs for the days of Mad Maxian blackout helping you convince the neighbourhood elect you to speak with the next street rather than attack it (as beerless Joe in apartment 12D would have preferred.)

    when the hurly-burly's done 2006

  • The effect on the character of the men was still more remarkable; and while in Pretoria I was repeatedly assured that some who had been a perpetual worry to their officers in beer-ridden England, on the beerless veldt, or in the liquorless towns of the Transvaal, speedily took rank among the most reliable men in all their regiment.

    With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back Edward P. Lowry

  • But their beerless state did not long continue, for the first luxury to be brought to the new country was beer, and the colonists soon imported malt and learned to make beer from the despised Indian corn, and established breweries and made laws governing and controlling the manufacture of ale and beer; for the pious Puritans quickly learned to cheat in their brewing, using molasses and coarse sugar.

    Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

  • A few folks decked out in green passed down the street, a few bars got some traffic later in the day and some locals had block parties, but all we really saw was a hefty amount of police and a few sad, beerless teenagers.

    Chicagoist aaroncynic 2010

  • But there have been dark beerless days for the burger-days in which the beef and the beverage were separated in the neo-puritanical zeal of convenience.

    Portland Mercury 2009

  • The cause and solution to all of life's beerless problems.

    digg.com: Stories / Popular 2009

  • If scientists ultimately decide that yeasts are animals, will that condemn staunch vegetarians to a breadless, beerless life?

    The Old Foodie 2009

  • It would be like asking a teetotaler whether he’d rather go beerless or sexless for two weeks.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Sex/Internet Poll 2008

  • Why should we care if gravity’s gone and we’re still here; the only ‘out there’ is a beerless world.

    Beer Goes On Forever Ivan Donn Carswell 2007

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