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sour

7 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. sour (noun)
  2. sour (verb)
  3. flat sour (noun)
  4. gray sour (noun)
  5. pisco sour (noun)
  6. whiskey sour (noun)
  7. white sour (noun)

2sour

noun

Definition of SOUR

1
a : something sour b : the primary taste sensation produced by acid stimuli
2
: a cocktail consisting of a liquor (as whiskey), lemon or lime juice, sugar, and sometimes ice
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First Known Use of SOUR

before 12th century

Other Alcoholic Beverage Terms

finish, gimlet, mull, sake, setup, sommelier, syllabub, vintner, wassail

Rhymes with SOUR

bower, dower, flour, flower, glower, lower, power, scour, shower, Stour, tour, tower

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