ginger beer

noun

1. a soft drink similar to ginger ale but containing more ginger flavor.

ginger beer

noun

1. a slightly alcoholic drink made by fermenting a mixture of syrup and root ginger

Word History and Origins

Origin of ginger beer¹

First recorded in 1800–10

Example Sentences

I named my first dog, Scamper, after the faithful hound in The Secret Seven, and I am still salivating over Blyton’s descriptions of picnics and midnight feasts with “lashings” of ginger beer, hard-boiled eggs and warm buttered bread.

From Ozy

Pour over ice in a rocks glass and top off with Fentimans Ginger Beer.

From The Daily Beast

Ginger-beer could also be procured, and there were suspicions that the bottles so called contained something contraband.

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But Sarah Anne she up wi' her fist and knocked him down as flat as ginger-beer as has had t' cork out a fortnight.

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He pointed to Adeliza as he spoke, who, pale and mute, stood fainting against a heap of ginger-beer bottles.

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It was well known that ginger-beer was made in villages in stone bottles.

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Half a dozen of ginger-beer, three gipsy cakes, and twenty sovereigns in change!

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