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hellbrews

hellbrews is the plural of hellbrew.

Meaning of hellbrew

Noun

hellbrew (plural hellbrews)

  1. A horrible liquid mixture.
    • The only virtue of tequila, so far as I know, is cheapness. It has no flavour. It stupefies more quickly and more cheaply than any hellbrew I have yet encountered.1960, Stephen Lister [pen name; Digby George Gerahty], In Search of Paradise, London: Peter Davies, page 120
  2. A hellish mess.
    • But—known only to a handful of Hasbrouck Heights residents—the shadow of her finger thrusts down through a dozen years to stir two lives into a hellbrew.1934 June 19, Bergen Evening Record, volume XXXX, number 12 (total 11478), Hackensack, N.J., page 22

Questions about hellbrews

What is hellbrews the plural of?
Hellbrews is the plural of hellbrew.

Words near hellbrews in the dictionary

  1. hellbound
  2. hellbox
  3. hellboxes
  4. hellbred
  5. hellbrew
  6. hellbrews
  7. hellbroth
  8. hellbroths
  9. hellburner
  10. hellburners
  11. hellcat

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hellbrews (page history and authors); hellbrew (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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