light beer

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   lager with reduced alcohol content

   Broaderlager

Questions about light beer

What does light beer mean?

light beer means "lager with reduced alcohol content".

Is light beer a common word?

light beer 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.