tall drink

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noun

a beverage consisting of liquor and a sparkling soda, fruit juice, or the like, to which may be added other ingredients, served in a tall glass, usually with ice.

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Origin of tall drink

First recorded in 1955–60

Words nearby tall drink

Tall Blacks, tallboy, tall buttercup, tall-case clock, Tallchief, tall drink, tallet, Talleyrand-Périgord, Tallinn, Tallis, tallish

How to use tall drink in a sentence

Also, she was tall and thin, too, further adding to the ways she met the physical beauty conventions.
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Their logic: the sea-creature would come alive and drink up any remaining alcohol.
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You would drink it, then “take a little nap and after that you feel wonderful,” according to a press agent.
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Adults prepare food and drink dark sweet tea on the doorsteps of their homes as they watch their children playing.
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A tall phantom in livery appeared, as if by magic, and signed to me to ascend the grand staircase.
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The general commanded a halt, and ordered the men to refresh and strengthen themselves by food and drink.
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It was he who first said, If thine enemy hunger give him food, if he thirst give him drink.
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He is rather tall and narrow, and wears a long abb's coat reaching nearly down to his feet.
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He was tall and of familiar figure, and the firelight was playing in the tossed curls of his short, fair hair.
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