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quarter water

quarter water noun: a combination of water, food coloring, and sugar sold as a drink in small plastic bottles for 25 cents.

Noun

quarter water (plural quarter waters)

  1. (US) A combination of water, food coloring, and sugar sold as a drink in small plastic bottles for 25 cents.
    • A bell rings and Pavlov's law is confirmed every time; the ice cream truck comes up the street and kids start flying from their houses; and we get in line to make our selection of pop sickles, quarter waters, push up pops, and rockets.2008, Ellington Rudi Robinson, Underneath the Music, →ISBN, page 3
    • Well, there's water, and then there's quarter-waters. Ghetto Gatorade.2011, Patrice Evans, Negropedia, →ISBN

Examples of quarter water in a sentence

  • When I was a kid, quarter water was the drink of choice because it only cost a quarter.2011, Maurice Patterson, Inner-city Diet, →ISBN, page 30:
  • The corner bodega shops with the quarter waters and yellow lemon drops and the now and later, Do you remember then?2013, Yanatha Desouvre, Walk Through This Journey: Volume One, →ISBN:
  • Sewer grates, straining under the weight of quarter water bottles and wrappers from cheap snacks and cakes.2014, Miss Sixx, 15th & East Capitol, →ISBN, page 69:

Forms of quarter water

pluralquarter waters

Origin of quarter water

From the cost (a quarter) and the main ingredient (water).

Questions about quarter water

What does quarter water mean?
Quarter water means a combination of water, food coloring, and sugar sold as a drink in small plastic bottles for 25 cents.
How do you use quarter water in a sentence?
When I was a kid, quarter water was the drink of choice because it only cost a quarter.
What part of speech is quarter water?
Quarter water is a noun.
What is the plural of quarter water?
The plural of quarter water is quarter waters.

Words near quarter water in the dictionary

  1. quarter times
  2. quarter tone
  3. quarter tones
  4. quarter waiter
  5. quarter waiters
  6. quarter water
  7. quarter waters
  8. quarter window
  9. quarter windows
  10. quarter-ass
  11. quarter-assed

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