beer

plural beers

1. uncountableAn alcoholic drink fermented from starch material, commonly barley malt; often with hops or some other substance (like gruit) to impart a bitter flavor.

   Beer is brewed all over the world.

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   “[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”

   1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC

2. uncountableA fermented extract of the roots and other parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc.
3. uncountableA solution produced by steeping plant materials in water or another fluid.
4. countableA glass, bottle, or can of any of the above beverages.

   Can I buy you a beer?

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   I bought a few beers from the shop for the party.

   I'd like two beers and a glass of white wine.

   Jerry was a race car driver / Twenty-two years old / One too many cold beers one night / And wrapped himself around a telephone pole

   1991, Primus, “Jerry Was a Race Car Driver”, in Sailing the Seas of Cheese (alternative metal, funk metal), California, United States

5. countableA variety of the above beverages.

   I haven't tried this beer before.

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   Pilsner is one of the most commonly served beers in Europe.

   I had two beers yesterday at the restaurant.

present singular third person beers · participle present beering · participle past beered · past beered

1. informaltransitiveTo give beer to (someone).

   I heard Patty Marsh yelling, ‘Beer him, Eleanor!’

   2013, Janet E. Cameron, Cinnamon Toast and the End of the World, Hatchette Books Ireland, page 124

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   No doubt he then can feed us, wine us, beer us, And cook us something that can warm and cheer us.

   1870, Sidney Daryl, His First Brief. A Comedietta in Clement Scott, Drawing-room Plays and Parlour Pantomimes, Robson and Sons, pages 303–304

   “Beer me!” said Goody. “Also your weed is shit. Where’s the good stuff, dude?”

   2010, Steve Brezenhoff, The Absolute Value of -1, Carolrhoda Lab, page 121

   “Beer me!” To his astonishment she obeyed his command, appearing a minute later with a glass of beer and a wry smile.

   2013, R. D. Power, Forbidden, page 39

2. informalintransitiveTo drink beer.

   In Japan, students on a Friday night announce “Let's beer!”

   2008, Charles Foran, Join the Revolution, Comrade: Journeys and Essays, page 83

plural beers · alternative be-er

1. nonstandardOne who is or exists.

   That meant, among other things, that he was going to be a fast-moving doer. And even when he was three or four, it wasn't hard for me to know that this wasn't going to be easy. Because Albert was a beer. Born that way.

   1990, Budge Wilson, “Be-ers and Doers”, in The leaving, and other stories

1. A village in East Devon district, Devon, England.

1. A surname.