hard drink

1. 1.

   an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented

   Synonymsliquorspiritsboozehard liquorJohn Barleycornstrong drink

   Broaderalcohol

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Questions about hard drink

What does hard drink mean?

hard drink means "an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented".

What is another word for hard drink?

Close synonyms include liquor, spirits, booze, hard liquor, John Barleycorn. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hard drink a common word?

hard drink 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.