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home-brew
[ hohm-broo ]
/ ˈhoʊmˈbru /
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noun
beer or other alcoholic beverage made at home.
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Origin of home-brew
First recorded in 1850–55
OTHER WORDS FROM home-brew
home-brewed, adjectiveWords nearby home-brew
homebody,
homebound,
homeboy,
home brand,
homebred,
home-brew,
homebuilder,
homebuilding,
homebuyer,
home-care,
home center Dictionary.com Unabridged
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Words related to home-brew
bootleg,
firewater,
hooch,
rotgut,
moonshine,
mountain dew,
white lightning,
bathtub gin,
corn liquor,
sheepdip,
white mule How to use home-brew in a sentence
That officer fretting about his “stance,” we learn, is plagued by PTSD that cripples him both on the job and at home.
So, Islamized teaching sends girls back home for marriage and housework, and remains exclusively for boys.
Meanwhile, almost exactly 30 years after the trial, the judge left his home to board a steamboat and was never heard from again.
The FBI raided his home in 2000 with an affidavit questioning his use of $200,000 from his white supremacist fundraising.
Scalise spoke briefly, adding little of substance, saying that the people back home know him best.
It was with a feeling of relief on both sides that the arrival of Mr. Haggard, of the Home Office, was announced.
In the entrance hall of the Savoy, where large and lonely porters were dozing, he learnt that she was at home.
I've never had time to write home about it, for I felt that it required a dissertation in itself to do it justice.
Now and then the boy who had bought Squinty, and who was taking him home, would look around at his pet in the slatted box.
"I suppose the man Alessandro has something he calls a home," said the Senora, regaining herself a little.
British Dictionary definitions for home-brew
noun
a beer or other alcoholic drink brewed at home rather than commercially
Canadian informal a professional football player who was born in Canada and is not an import
Derived forms of home-brew
home-brewed, adjectiveCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
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