likker
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Americans often wax poetic about the traditional dishes found on their Thanksgiving tables — casseroles of sweet potatoes with toasted marshmallow topping, collard greens swimming in pot likker, tamales stuffed with green chiles and roasted pork.
From Washington Post
Home & Family Singer-actress Katharine McPhee; chef Carla Hall prepares greens with smoked paprika pot likker.
From Los Angeles Times
The scent of fermenting likker.
Hell, their wives have lost their teeth and their shape, and likker won’t set on their stomachs, and they don’t believe in God, so it’s up to you to give ’em something to stir ’em up and make ’em feel alive again.
From New York Times
Long, who entertained spectators by reciting Shakespeare and reading recipes for fried oysters and “pot likker” — the liquid left behind after greens are boiled — filibustered for 15 hours and 30 minutes in 1935, to require Senate confirmation for some New Deal employees.
From Washington Post
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