hard liquor

Idioms  

1. Distilled alcoholic beverages, such as gin or whiskey. For example, We're serving wine and beer but no hard liquor. The hard here refers to their high alcoholic content, which is also true for hard cider, although the latter is not distilled but has simply fermented.

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Example Sentences

You don’t have to include beer, hard liquor or gummies, and can ask guests to bring creative non-alcoholic beverages.

From Salon • Nov. 26, 2025

Outside, people stop to take photos as workmen paint the Chanel logo on the side of a convenience store that offers "discount beer, wine & hard liquor".

From BBC • Dec. 5, 2023

The Carters did not serve hard liquor at public functions, though Rosalynn did permit U.S. wine.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 19, 2023

But the sale of hard liquor is tightly regulated — the shipment of hard liquor even more so.

From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2021

She keeps an honest, one price house, sells no hard liquor, and permits no loud or vulgar talk in her house.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck

Related Words

• alcohol
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• liquor
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