lager

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[ lah-ger, law- ]
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noun
  1. Also called lager beer . a beer stored from six weeks to six months for aging before use.

verb (used with object)
  1. to age (beer) usually by storing in tanks at just-below freezing temperatures for several weeks or months.

Origin of lager

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1835–45; short for lager beer, half adoption, half translation of German Lagerbier.See lair1, beer

Other definitions for lager (2 of 2)

lager2
[ lah-ger ]

noun, verb (used with or without object)South African.

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How to use lager in a sentence

  • It's the same old story, so common—a champagne appetite and a lager beer pocketbook.

    Step Lively! | George Niblo
  • Haight was the real head-man, but he was too fond of lager-beer to be in trusted with so large a business.

  • A stairway connected the two floors, and by means of that communication the Klub obtained its supply of lager beer.

  • Theron had never seen any considerable number of his fellow-citizens engaged in drinking lager beer before.

  • Early in his search for work he had made a noontime pause, one day, in a quaint lager-beer saloon much frequented by musicians.

    The Old Flute-Player | Edward Marshall and Charles T. Dazey

British Dictionary definitions for lager (1 of 2)

lager1

/ (ˈlɑːɡə) /


noun
  1. a light-bodied effervescent beer, fermented in a closed vessel using yeasts that sink to the bottom of the brew: Compare ale

Origin of lager

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C19: from German Lagerbier beer for storing, from Lager storehouse

British Dictionary definitions for lager (2 of 2)

lager2

/ (ˈlɑːɡə) /


noun
  1. a variant spelling of laager

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