Liquor

Quick meaning: Liquor is a noun meaning A liquid obtained by cooking meat or vegetables (or both).

Meaning

A liquid obtained by cooking meat or vegetables (or both).

More Meanings

1. (UK, cooking) A parsley sauce commonly served with traditional pies and mash.
2. (loosely) Any alcoholic beverage.
3. A liquid in which something has been steeped.
4. In process industry, a liquid in which a desired reaction takes place, e.g. pulping liquor is a mixture of chemicals and water which breaks wood into its components, thus facilitating the extraction of cellulose.
5. (obsolete) A liquid, a fluid.
6. (obsolete) A beverage, any drinkable liquid.
7. (chiefly US, Canada, Australia) Strong (high-ABV) alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation.

Example Sentences

Liquor fishermen's boots.

cart-wheels squeak not when they are liquored

Thus Water also, or any other Liquor, included in a convenient vessel, by being warmed, manifestly expands it self with a very great violence […]

Here the proprietor has had the good sense of holding on to the good old fashion of giving his customers their moneyworth of good wines and liquors.

Word Forms

• liquors
• liquour
• liqa
• liquoring
• liquored

Synonyms for liquor

Depending on context, synonyms include beverage, beveridge, drink, libation, potable, potation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include booze, spirits, spirituous, drinking, alcoholic, drink.

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