strong drink

Questions about strong drink

What does strong drink mean?

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

What is another word for strong drink?

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

strong 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.