alcopop
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English
Etymology
Blend of alcohol + pop (“sweetened carbonated drink”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈæl.kəʊ.pɒp/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈæl.koʊ.pɑp/, /ˈæl.kə.pɑp/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
alcopop (usually uncountable, plural alcopops)
- (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.
Translations
type of alcoholic drink
See also
- premix (Australia)
- cooler (Canada)
- malternative