sloe gin

sloe gin
noun
gin flavored with sloes (fruit of the blackthorn)
• Hypernyms: ↑gin
• Substance Meronyms: ↑sloe

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noun
: a sweet reddish liqueur consisting of grain spirits flavored chiefly with sloeberries from the blackthorn

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a cordial or liqueur made from gin flavored with sloes.
[1890-95]

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sloe gin noun
Gin flavoured by having sloes steeped in it
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Main Entry: ↑sloe

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sloe gin UK US noun [uncountable]
a strong alcoholic drink made by adding sloes and sugar to gin
Thesaurus: spirits and other miscellaneous alcoholic drinkshyponym general words for drinkssynonym

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sloe gin,
an alcoholic liquor like ordinary gin, but flavored with sloes instead of juniper berries: »

Sloe gin is not a true gin, but a liqueur (J. Bernard Robb).

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n. a liqueur made by steeping sloes in gin

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ˌsloe ˈgin 7 [sloe gin sloe gins] noun uncountable
a strong alcoholic drink made by leaving ↑sloes in ↑gin so that the gin has the flavour and the colour of the sloes

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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