Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Ginger-beer, especially of a weak and inferior sort.
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Examples
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Shampang flew about like ginger-pop, besides bordo, clarit, burgundy, burgong, and other wines, and all the delixes of the Balong kitchins.
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So, since there must be lighter draughts, or many a poor man go thirsty, we who are but the ginger-pop of life may well rejoice, remembering that ginger-pop is nourishing and tonic, -- that thousands of weary wayfarers who could never know the taste of the costly brands, and who go sadly and wearily, will be fleeter of foot and gladder of soul because of its humble and evanescent foam.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 Various
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I have not heard his opinions concerning cider, or root-beer, or effervescing sarsaparilla, or ginger-pop; but I imagine that each and every one of those reputed harmless beverages would enter into his _Index Expurgatorius_.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Various
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Prime, famous for making election-cake and ginger-pop, and who was sent for at all the great houses on occasions of high festivity, as learned in all mysteries relating to the confection of cakes and pies.
Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers Benj. N. Martin
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The next moment there was a crash of broken glass and a dash of ginger-pop on what was called by courtesy the bow.
Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir Mary Catherine Crowley
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The ginger-pop will be fit to drink in about four days after it has been bottled.
A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes Charles Elm�� Francatelli
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However, the old custom of christening a boat, as it is called, may be carried out quite as effectively with a bottle of ginger-pop, which Leo has stowed away somewhere in that basket.
Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir Mary Catherine Crowley
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He knew very well that both these ladies bitterly resented the presence of Mrs. Ross, and that he was in for one of those hideously boring situations when he felt exactly as if he was holding down with his thumb the cork of a bottle filled with seething ginger-pop.
Overture to Death Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1939
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An English correspondent writes: Did the Americans invent ginger-ale and ginger-pop?
Chapter 3. The Period of Growth. 3. The Expanding Vocabulary Henry Louis 1921
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In the pit, sober people relax themselves, and suck oranges, and quaff ginger-pop; in the boxes, Miss, gazing through her curls, thinks the
Christmas Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse Robert Haven Schauffler 1921
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