soft drink

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Soft drinks in a Virginia supermarket

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So called in contrast to strong alcoholic beverages, which are "hard liquors".

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soft drink (plural soft drinks)

  1. Any non-alcoholic drink that is carbonated, and usually also sweet. (In this sense, juice, milk, tea and coffee are not soft drinks.)
  2. (broadly) Any non-alcoholic drink.
    • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
      "And then they run to him with whisky, and so they teach him to rely on the bottle and you get another case of a drunken medium. I know them. You keep off it, Tom!" "Yes, one of our trade should stick to soft drinks."

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Matthew T. Campbell, Spatial Graphics and Analysis Lab, East Central University of Oklahoma: [1]
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 dialect survey