malt liquor

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noun

beer having a relatively high alcohol content, usually 5 to 8 percent.

Origin of malt liquor

First recorded in 1685–95

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Examples from the Web for malt liquor

Historical Examples

An aqueous infusion of malted grain which, after being boiled with hops, has undergone the vinous fermentation; malt-liquor.
Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I
Arnold Cooley
Next in importance are the tobacco, meat-packing, and malt-liquor industries.
Great Cities of the United States
Gertrude Van Duyn Southworth
They were having a rare set-to—rashers of bacon, wedges of cheese, with oceans of malt-liquor.
Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour
R. S. Surtees

British Dictionary definitions for malt liquor

malt liquor

noun

any alcoholic drink brewed from malt

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malt liquor

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Examples from the Web for malt liquor

Historical Examples

An aqueous infusion of malted grain which, after being boiled with hops, has undergone the vinous fermentation; malt-liquor.

Next in importance are the tobacco, meat-packing, and malt-liquor industries.

They were having a rare set-to—rashers of bacon, wedges of cheese, with oceans of malt-liquor.

malt liquor

Origin of malt liquor