breezer

From breeze +‎ -er, the drink originated as a brand name: Bacardi Breezer.

breezer (plural breezers)

1. A (pre-mixed) alcoholic drink containing rum and a fruit flavor like orange.
   • 2008 03, Blind Date, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 40:

     I'd like a vodka-lime, with a dash of gin and then a passion, a malibu juice, I'd like a vodka-lime, with a dash of gin and then a passion, a malibu juice, but not too strong...a calvados, 2 bacardi breezers, orange and tropical, […]

   • 2009, Josine Junger-Tas, Ineke Haen Marshall, Dirk Enzmann, Juvenile Delinquency in Europe and Beyond, page 176:

     A large proportion reported on having drunk beer, wine, cider or breezers than having consumed spirits.

   • 2010 February 10, Dewanand, Holland: Paradise or Hell?, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 185:

     A few years ago the breezer was introduced in the Dutch markets. A breezer contains a considerable amount of pure alcohol. Among young people it became the rage to drink a few breezers during a party or in a pub.

   • 2020 July 7, Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material, Sourcebooks, Inc., →ISBN:

     What flavour breezers do you have?” Peter perked up. “Good question. I think...some pink ones? And maybe some orange ones? And possibly a slightly different orange one that might be peach?” “I'll take the slightly different orange one.”

   • 2020, Yashika Bharadwaj, The Road to Becoming an Officer & a Gentleman, page 67:

     The Adjutant very lovingly called him to his side and said “So you want to give him a breezer, eh? Advocating alcohol in the academy eh?

2. A school of fish that swim near the surface of the water, causing ripples that look similar to those caused by a light breeze on still water.
   • 1977 January 1, Michael K. Orbach, Hunters, Seamen, and Entrepreneurs: The Tuna Seinermen of San Diego, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 84:

     Boilers and foamers are not really classified as kinds of breezers by the fishermen , although many times they share the breezers' attribute of concealing from sight what is creating the surface condition .

   • 1984, Collected Reprints:

     Perhaps the most striking difference is the almost complete lack of jumping and boiling schools in the southern area and the predominance of breezers in this same area ( Table 3 ) . These differences may reflect differences in the […]

   • 1994 March 14-17, Second Dolphin-Safe Research Planning Workshop), Administrative Report LJ, page 19:

     At present, fixed-wing aircraft and / or satellites would be required to see surface effects of tuna schools such as breezers or feeding aggregations. Existing systems are being used to study surface features in various ways 

3. (plumbing) A vertical pipe attached to a septic system's distribution pipe that rises above the ground to provide ventilation.
   • 1979, Peter Warshall, John H. Timothy Winneberger, Greg Hewlett, Septic Tank Practices, page 128:

     A minimum of one breezer for every 200 linear feet of distribution pipe and one breezer at the end of the distribution pipe are adequate.

   • 1984, John H. Timothy Winneberger, Septic-tank Systems: A Consultant's Toolkit, page 6:

     Apparently originating in Canada, sometimes the perforated distribution pipe is fitted with vertical sections of solid pipe rising above ground level. Those breezers ( or breathers ) are fitted with protective caps, but ones through which air can freely flow.

4. (physics) A bound state of solitons and antisolitons.
   • 1986, Soviet Physics, Doklady - Volume 31, Issues 1-6, page 502:

     In this paper we consider the dynamics of solitons and breezers in a NLC subjected to a variable magnetic field.

   • 2001, Vladimir I. Ustyugov, Solid State Lasers, page 115:

     There are the possibilities for multipulse generation ( Fig 6 ), generation of the breezer- like pulse and its subsequent disintegration ( Fig 7 ), and the collapse of the pulse into several pulses ( Fig . 8 ).

5. A window with horizontal openings, designed for ventilation.
   • 1955, Ray Gill, How to Build 20 Cabins: Modern, Rustic, Prefab, page 62:

     The rear window we cut down to 41 in. on a level with the breezer, and made the kitchen window the same size.

6. An open-air trolley.
   • 1971, The Commonwealth - Volume 38, page 8:

     Antique trolleys, too, are in the plan: regular excursions in the picturesque "breezers" would take visitors across Belle Isle and through James park.

   • 2010, Sayre Historical Society, Sayre:

     Years before airconditioning, the breezers, which were open on all sides, gave trolley customers naturally cool air.