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schnaps

schnaps is the alternative form of schnapps.

Meaning of schnapps

Noun

schnapps (usually uncountable, plural schnappses or schnapps)

  1. (usually) A type of distilled alcoholic beverage (liquor), often with a herbal or fruit flavoring, typically drunk neat as an apéritif or digestif.
    • apple schnapps; peach schnapps
  2. (countable, usually) A serving of this beverage.
    • “What happened?” “You drank about a bottle of vodka and ten peppermint schnapps is what happened. Come on, up.”2009, Colin Broderick, Orangutan: A Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Three Rivers Press, →ISBN, page 3

Forms of schnaps

pluralschnapses

Questions about schnaps

What is schnaps the alternative form of?
Schnaps is the alternative form of schnapps.

Words near schnaps in the dictionary

  1. Schnapp
  2. schnapper
  3. schnappers
  4. schnapps
  5. schnappses
  6. schnaps
  7. schnapses
  8. Schnarr
  9. Schnarrs
  10. schnauzer
  11. schnauzers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: schnaps (page history and authors); schnapps (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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