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English
Noun
ginger beer (countable and uncountable, plural ginger beers)
- (uncountable) A fermented, typically non-alcoholic, drink flavoured with ginger.
- Coordinate terms: birch beer, root beer
2004, “Kon Queso”, in Mm..Food, performed by MF Doom:Have no fear, the ninja here / Feel 'em like the tinge in your ear from drinkin' ginger beer
- (countable) A glass or drink of ginger beer.
I'm having a ginger beer - would you like one too?
- (Cockney rhyming slang, usually used in the shortened form ginger) queer (i.e. homosexual).
Translations
drink flavoured with ginger
Adjective
ginger beer (comparative more ginger beer, superlative most ginger beer)
- (Cockney rhyming slang, usually used in the shortened form ginger) queer (i.e. homosexual).
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