plural schnapps
: any of various liquors of high alcoholic content
especially
: strong Holland gin
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Before Italy, my drinking experiences were limited to whatever my friends and I could sneak from our parents’ liquor cabinets, preferably something sickly sweet like peach schnapps and vanilla vodka drowned in Diet Coke.
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Alexandra Emanuelli, Travel + Leisure, 21 Sep. 2025
Guests also enjoy beer, wine and schnapps tastings, a baking competition and more.
—Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 11 Sep. 2025
The three of us spent a very enjoyable stretch of days together, walking, talking, drinking vodka and schnapps, watching a rustic Azerbaijani family’s YouTube channel, and cutting open agates on the lapidary saw that Lockwood and Kendall keep in their basement.
—Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2025
The original’s a sweet, fruity mix—vodka, peach schnapps, iced tea, that sort of thing.
—Jordi Lippe-McGraw, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
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Alexandra Emanuelli, Travel + Leisure, 21 Sep. 2025
Guests also enjoy beer, wine and schnapps tastings, a baking competition and more.
—Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 11 Sep. 2025
The three of us spent a very enjoyable stretch of days together, walking, talking, drinking vodka and schnapps, watching a rustic Azerbaijani family’s YouTube channel, and cutting open agates on the lapidary saw that Lockwood and Kendall keep in their basement.
—Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2025
The original’s a sweet, fruity mix—vodka, peach schnapps, iced tea, that sort of thing.
—Jordi Lippe-McGraw, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for schnapps
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“Schnapps.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/schnapps. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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