Food & Drink Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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BBQ stopper n. I should explain exactly just what the phrase “BBQ Stopper” actually means. It’s Australian slang for a social incident or inappropriate comment that causes everyone at the BBQ to stop talking and look at you in a half-embarrassed, half-accusing kind of way. [English Australia Food & Drink] [full cite] (Jan. 20, 2005)

bean to bar adj. Bean to bar…a buzz phrase used in the chocolate world to describe the handful of chocolate makers who roast, grind and process their own cacao beans into couverture. Some have been known to fake it, e.g., “Noka presented itself as bean to bar but was allegedly melting down Bonnat chocolate and charging $2,000 a pound.” [English Food & Drink] [full cite] (May. 7, 2007)

beer attachment disorder n. He’s not, as they say “the sharpest tool in the shed.” He has what I call, Beer Attachment Disorder (BAD), characterized by his pathological need to have a can of beer glued to at least one of his hands at all times. [English Food & Drink] [full cite] (Aug. 19, 2005)

beer bully n. Empower students to stand up to “beer bullies,” a term coined by a Florida educator. These are students who drink so aggressively that they try to bully other students into imitating or tolerating their behavior. [English United States Food & Drink] [full cite] (Dec. 7, 2004)

beer chariot n. Did Gareth survive the return trip in the beer chariot? [English United Kingdom Food & Drink Slang] [full cite] (Feb. 11, 2006)

beer pong n. Urban Outfitters stocks a popular beer pong kit called Bombed and boxed sets of rules for other games. In January, thousands of players are expected at the first World Series of Beer Pong, sponsored by a beer pong accessories company and held on the outskirts of—where else?—Las Vegas. [ Language English Subject Entertainment Food & Drink] [full cite] (Oct. 16, 2005)

beer shooter n. Alcohol is also “shot” or “needled” into near beer.…Much available evidence was brought to light concerning the methods in which breweries in that locality “shot beer,” as the saying goes among the beer barons.…They secure three or four citizens, generally individuals with good reputations but keen to place the same for, of course, a consideration, at disposal of the beere shooters.…One beer racketeer calmly advised the assistant administrator in Philadelphia that he was the “fastest beer shooter” in the state, and that if he, the assistant administrator, would leave town with his forces for about an hour, he would shoot enough beer to hold them for a month. This same modern brewer also delivered himself of the statement that he would “shoot beer any time that he could get away with it.”…If the coast is clear, the regular beer is quickly “shot” out to what are termed “drops,” the latter being garages or other convenient hiding places.…Another method breweries have utilized to defeat the law was the supplying of near-beer to establishments products conforming to the one-half of 1 per cent limitations, but accompanied by secret supplies of alcohol which was “needled” or “shot” into the glasses of near beer as served. [Food & Drink] [full cite] (May. 31, 2005)

beer thirty n. On a recent Friday evening at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Kyle Field, 22, and his friends were watching television in an off-campus house when the clock struck 8:30. “Beer thirty!” someone yelled. “Let’s drink!” [ Language English Subject Entertainment Food & Drink] [full cite] (Oct. 16, 2005)

beer tie n. Talk to pub landlords and one of the most insistent complaints is something called the “beer tie.” It means that not only must they pay rent to the PubCo that owns their premises—they must buy all their beer from them, too. [English United Kingdom Food & Drink] [full cite] (Mar. 19, 2008)

beermuda triangle n. One reason Johnson believes his numbers remain high is because of his location, in what some patrons call the “Barmuda Triangle” or “Beermuda Triangle.” That’s the nickname some have given to the area surrounding Romeo and two other bars said by the state to have high DUI numbers: The Horse and Cow Bar and Grill on Northlake Way and the 19th Hole on Erlands Point Road. [English Food & Drink Slang] [full cite] (Apr. 4, 2007)

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