hard liquor
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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How to use hard liquor in a sentence
They started with organic sodas, then beer and wine, now they are moving on to hard liquor.
Note also that Americans are moderating the way they use alcohol, shifting away from hard liquor etc.
And the amount of hard liquor consumed on election days and county court days was also a deterrent.
Religious Life of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century | George MacLaren BrydonMen who formerly drank to excess have sobered up, against their will, for lack of cash or lack of chance to buy hard liquor.
One Third Off | Irvin S. CobbHe accused him of avoiding hard liquor and teased him because he could read and spoke like an educated man.
L'Assommoir | Emile Zola
Let hard liquor crouch and tremble in its rathskeller below the sidewalk!
Chimney-Pot Papers | Charles S. Brookshard liquor has no place on the refreshment list of a class whose life is dependent on a clear brain and a sure hand and foot.
David Lannarck, Midget | George S. Harney
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