hard liquor

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.

Example Sentences

But I hated feeling that I needed to drink to feel good, so at age 35 I quit hard liquor.

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Zero-proof spirits: Miss the experience of drinking hard liquor, but not the hangovers that come with it?

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The teenagers said there was a fully stocked bar with New Amsterdam vodka and Malibu rum, with the games of beer pong using hard liquor instead.

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I haven’t had a taste of hard liquor since that diagnosis.

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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".

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• alcohol 
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• liquor 
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