hard liquor

1. 1.

   an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented

   Synonymsliquorspiritsboozehard drinkJohn Barleycornstrong drink

   Broaderalcohol

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Questions about hard liquor

What does hard liquor mean?

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

What is another word for hard liquor?

Close synonyms include liquor, spirits, booze, hard drink, 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 liquor a common word?

hard liquor 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.