home-brew
Americannoun
noun
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a beer or other alcoholic drink brewed at home rather than commercially
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informal a professional football player who was born in Canada and is not an import
Other Word Forms
- home-brewed adjective
Etymology
Origin of home-brew
First recorded in 1850–55
Example Sentences
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At some point, though, my home-brew making fell by the wayside and I think it is time to bring it back.
From Salon • Aug. 31, 2023
People who fell in love with the lo-fi, home-brew aesthetic of Ulven's early songs will notice a big difference in Serotonin.
From BBC • Mar. 3, 2021
The 19-year-old Minnesotan singer Corbin Smidzik’s fame might have seemed like a passing craze in 2014, when he gained notice for the spectral home-brew R&B he made as Spooky Black.
From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2017
She talked with American Homebrewers Association Director Gary Glass, Marisic says, and they decided to turn that previously untapped love of political home-brew into an interoffice contest, complete with a trophy.
From Washington Post • Dec. 11, 2016
Mr. Wheeler, mourning over his lost home-brew and refusing, like Niobe, to be comforted, has suspended the sittings for the magazine cover, thus robbing Archie of his life-work.
From Indiscretions of Archie by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
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