soft drink

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   nonalcoholic beverage (usually carbonated)

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Questions about soft drink

What does soft drink mean?

soft drink means "nonalcoholic beverage (usually carbonated)".

Is soft drink a common word?

soft drink is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.