drinking age

1. 1.

   the age at which is legal for a person to buy alcoholic beverages

   Broaderage

   Part ofadulthood

Questions about drinking age

What does drinking age mean?

drinking age means "the age at which is legal for a person to buy alcoholic beverages".

Is drinking age a common word?

drinking age 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.