alcopop

English

Etymology

Blend of alcohol +‎ pop (“sweetened carbonated drink”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈælkəʊ.pɒp/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈælkoʊ.pɑp/

• Audio (AU)

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Noun

alcopop (usually uncountable, plural alcopops)

1. (British, Ireland, Australia) An alcoholic drink that looks and tastes like a soft drink.
   • 1999, Stanton Peel, Marcus Grant, editors, Alcohol and Pleasure: a health perspective:

     However, the media soon went too far in playing the story up, claiming that underage drinkers drank only alcopop (actually they preferred cheap cider).

   • 2003 January 23, Dave Haslam, London Review of Books:

     The breweries began to develop alcopops with names and advertising drawn from drug culture.

   • 2004 June 3, Andrew O'Hagan, London Review of Books:

     Over on cheap flights from Prestwick and Stansted, these boys were often to be found floating trouserless in the Liffey at dawn, or staggering up Grafton Street, their T-shirts clinging to them with alcopops and spilled Sambuca.

Translations

type of alcoholic drink

• Finnish: limuviina (fi), limualkoholi
• Norwegian: rusbrus m
• Russian: отвёртка (ru) f (otvjórtka) ("screwdriver")
• Swedish: alkoläsk (sv) c

See also

• premix (Australia)
• cooler (Canada)
• malternative

Anagrams

• Coppola