liquid refreshment

noun

Alcoholic drink.

Meanings

nounliquid refreshment (countable and uncountable, plural liquid refreshments)

plural liquid refreshments

  1. countableeuphemisticuncountableAlcoholic drink.

    When one goes to the store to procure liquid refreshments, one does not want to be told that the only thing available is coffee.

    2012, Duane Andry, Blogosphere Madness: Dogmasphere 2011, page 84
  2. countableuncountableUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see liquid, refreshment.
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APA

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Chicago

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