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Definition of liquor
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Examples of liquor in a Sentence
He drinks beer and wine, but he doesn't drink any hard liquor.
vodka, whiskey, and other liquors
Recent Examples of liquor from the Web
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Now the prime real estate at the bottom of the Sanger Lofts building will house In the Sack, a fresh market sandwich shop and liquor store with a location in Dallas.
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Grab whatever strikes your fancy, stop at the liquor store and invite some friends over for a backyard fruit juice fest.
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Yvette Meunier, a scientist and avid bicyclist, last year took it upon herself to chronicle an increasing trash menace in Maine, those little liquor bottles, typical of minibars and airplanes.
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Youngsters who live in neighborhoods with more bars or liquor stores are more likely to be maltreated.
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Liquor commissioners are appointed by the mayor, who serves as the head of the liquor commission.
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A-Shares -- a group that includes coal miners and liquor companies -- in its benchmark emerging market index.
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Other drug trafficking is violent for the same reason liquor trafficking was violent during Prohibition: because of the inherent violence of black markets, not anything inherent to drugs.
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The hot areas for graffiti had been the area around West Los Angeles, and at two still-under-construction skate parks and liquor stores along North Santa Fe Avenue.
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Origin and Etymology of liquor
Middle English licour, from Anglo-French, from Latin liquor, from liquēre
liquor
Definition of liquor
liquored
;liquoring
play \ˈli-k(ə-)riŋ\transitive verb
1 : to dress (something, such as leather) with oil or grease
2 : to make drunk with alcoholic liquor —usually used with up
intransitive verb
: to drink alcoholic liquor especially to excess —usually used with up
First Known Use of liquor
1502
LIQUOR Defined for English Language Learners
liquor
playDefinition of liquor for English Language Learners
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: an alcoholic drink; especially : a strong alcoholic drink
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