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shnaps

shnaps 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

Questions about shnaps

What is shnaps the alternative form of?
Shnaps is the alternative form of schnapps.

Words near shnaps in the dictionary

  1. shmurah matzo
  2. shmutter
  3. shmutters
  4. shmutz
  5. shmutzy
  6. shnaps
  7. shnart
  8. Shnay
  9. shnazzier
  10. shnazziest
  11. shnazzy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shnaps (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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