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home-brew

home-brew is the alternative form of homebrew.

Meaning of homebrew

Noun

homebrew (countable and uncountable, plural homebrews)

  1. A beer brewed by enthusiasts rather than commercially.
  2. (informal) A game or amateur radio equipment made or modified by an amateur.
  3. (Canada, countable) A player who plays for the team named after their own native town.
    • Homebrews, American imports, former big-leaguers—the Terriers had it all.2006, David Menary, Terrier Town: Summer of ’49, page 19

See all 6 meanings of homebrew

Forms of home-brew

Noun
pluralhome-brews
Verb
third-person singular presenthome-brews
present participlehome-brewing
past participlehome-brewed
pasthome-brewed

Questions about home-brew

What is home-brew the alternative form of?
Home-brew is the alternative form of homebrew.

Words near home-brew in the dictionary

  1. home-and-away
  2. home-and-home
  3. home-bodies
  4. home-body
  5. home-bred
  6. home-brew
  7. home-brewed
  8. home-brewing
  9. home-brewn
  10. home-brews
  11. home-cook

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Adapted from Wiktionary: home-brew (page history and authors); homebrew (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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