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SCOTCH AND SODA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Scotch and soda mean? 

SCOTCH AND SODA (noun)
  The noun SCOTCH AND SODA has 1 sense:

1. a highball with Scotch malt whiskey and club sodaplay

  Familiarity information: SCOTCH AND SODA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SCOTCH AND SODA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A highball with Scotch malt whiskey and club soda

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("Scotch and soda" is a kind of...):

highball (a mixed drink made of alcoholic liquor mixed with water or a carbonated beverage and served in a tall glass)


 Context examples 


Brissenden never arrived without his quart of whiskey, and when they dined together down-town, he drank Scotch and soda throughout the meal.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

They talked about many things, and now Brissenden and now Martin took turn in ordering Scotch and soda.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Such a place was the Grotto, where Brissenden and he lounged in capacious leather chairs and drank Scotch and soda.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"I'll go you," Martin answered, attempting to pay for the current Scotch and soda with the last change from his two dollars and seeing the waiter bullied by Brissenden into putting that change back on the table.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)



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