| Main Entry: | alcohol |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intoxicating, flammable liquid |
Synonyms: |
alky, booze, canned heat, cocktail, drink, ethanol, firewater, hard stuff, hootch, intoxicant, liquor, methanol, moonshine, palliative, red-eye, rotgut, sauce, smoke*, spirits, tipple, toddy |
| Main Entry: | liquor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | drink; alcoholic beverage |
Synonyms: |
alcohol, aqua vitae, booze, broth, decoction, drinkable, elixir, extract, firewater, fluid, hard stuff, inebriant, infusion, intoxicant, liquid, moonshine, poison*, potable, sauce, solvent, spirits, stock, the bottle, whiskey |
| Notes: | liqueur is essentially the same word as liquor (from Latin), though the words have different meanings - liqueur is a strong highly flavored, often sweetened, alcoholic drink while liquor is an alcoholic beverage made by distillation rather than fermentation (which would be beer, wine) |
| Main Entry: | moonshine |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illegally distilled alcohol |
Synonyms: |
bathtub gin, bootleg, firewater, home brew, hooch, mountain dew, rotgut, white lightning |
| Main Entry: | bathtub gin |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | homemade gin |
Synonyms: |
bootleg, firewater, home brew, homemade spirit, hooch, moonshine, mountain dew, white lightning |