alcopop

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Blend of alcohol +‎ pop (sweetened carbonated drink).

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alcopop (usually uncountable, plural alcopops)

  1. (British, Ireland, Australia) An alcoholic drink that looks and tastes like a soft drink.
    • 1999, Stanton Peel, Marcus Grant, editors, Alcohol and Pleasure: a health perspective:
      However, the media soon went too far in playing the story up, claiming that underage drinkers drank only alcopop (actually they preferred cheap cider).
    • 2003 January 23, Dave Haslam, London Review of Books:
      The breweries began to develop alcopops with names and advertising drawn from drug culture.
    • 2004 June 3, Andrew O'Hagan, London Review of Books:
      Over on cheap flights from Prestwick and Stansted, these boys were often to be found floating trouserless in the Liffey at dawn, or staggering up Grafton Street, their T-shirts clinging to them with alcopops and spilled Sambuca.

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