bitter lemon

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   tart lemon-flavored carbonated drink

   Broadersoft drink

Questions about bitter lemon

What does bitter lemon mean?

bitter lemon means "tart lemon-flavored carbonated drink".

Is bitter lemon a common word?

bitter lemon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.