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lager-beer

lager-beer noun: lager.

Noun

lager-beer (countable and uncountable, plural lager-beers)

  1. (dated) lager
    • There was a vast amount of red - good to see at any time, because one knows that some real work is done in there, a deuce of a lot of blue, a little green, smears of orange, and, on the East Coast, a purple patch, to show where the jolly pioneers of progress drink the jolly lager-beer.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 199

Forms of lager-beer

plurallager-beers

Origin of lager-beer

Partial calque of German Lagerbier (“beer made for storing”), from Lager (“store”).

Questions about lager-beer

What does lager-beer mean?
Lager-beer means lager.
What part of speech is lager-beer?
Lager-beer is a noun.
What is the plural of lager-beer?
The plural of lager-beer is lager-beers.

Words near lager-beer in the dictionary

  1. lager
  2. lager lout
  3. lager louts
  4. lager top
  5. lager tops
  6. lager-beer
  7. lager-beers
  8. lager-conditioned
  9. lagered
  10. lagered up
  11. lagerine

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