Related Words

Beer: An alcoholic beverage made from malted barley; flavored with hops after fermentation

Beers Law: (A=abc or A=epsilonbc) Beer-Lambert law. In absorption spectroscopy, the absorbance of a dilute solution is equal to its absorptivity times the path length times the concentration of the abs . . . View Full Definition

Beer Frame: In team play (usually of three or more players), either (a) a pre-designated frame in which the player with the lowest pin count on the first ball buys some type of refreshment; or (b) when . . . View Full Definition

Consumer-Oriented Agricultural Products: One of three broad categories of agricultural products used by the Foreign Agricultural Service to report export and import data under its BICO system. (The others are bulk commodities and i . . . View Full Definition

Octoberfest: Octoberfest is a time of music and merrymaking featuring beer, sausage and sauerkraut. German Octoberfests, a tradition in Munich and the Bavarian region of German was introduced to North Am . . . View Full Definition

Spoonerism: The comic (and usually unintentional) transposition of two initial consonants or other sounds. For example, saying 'the queer old dean' when one means to say, 'the dear old queen,' or speaki . . . View Full Definition

Rondeau: A mainly octosyllabic poem consisting of between ten and fifteen lines, having only two rhymes and with the opening words used twice as an unrhyming refrain at the end of the second and thir . . . View Full Definition

Kenning: a compound word in Old English poetry that replaces the usual name for something, often involving metonymy.

Uncle: Usually the term used to describe the anchor player on a team that had a chance to stick a teammate with a beer frame, but did not strike. The anchor is said to be an uncle of the other play . . . View Full Definition

Chaser: A mixer that is tossed down the throat after one has drunk a straight shot of whiskey or other spirit instead of being combined with a spirit in the glass. The origonal chaser was a boiler-m . . . View Full Definition