Definitions
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- noun South Africa
soft drink
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Examples
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I'm an Australian currently living in South Africa where the preferred term is "cool drink" - often said as one word - "cooldrink".
doggdot.us 2008
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One of them held a plastic cooldrink bottle aloft containing a murky brown liquid from which a rag protruded and which he claimed was a petrol bomb.
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People assumed I had come to sell biscuits and cooldrink pop…or soda…or coke…whatever.
Link to AJ's Blog Jade 2008
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People assumed I had come to sell biscuits and cooldrink pop…or soda…or coke…whatever.
Archive 2008-11-01 Jade 2008
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A sweet and cooldrink trader, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, said she did not expect business to be good.
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He said consumers typically bought small quantities and often stored them in milk or juice bottles from which children may - and often do - accidentally ingest the paraffin, thinking the clear liquid was cooldrink or milk.
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Just before the lunch adjournment Squires thundered at a journalist for "refreshing" himself with a cooldrink in court A.
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The principle was already being successfully applied in the case of cooldrink bottles, and this model could quite easily be expanded to include other recyclable items.
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It would be out of line for an official to accept anything more than a cooldrink and a sandwich from a developer during a long, hot site visit, the Roodefontein corruption trial in George heard on
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He admitted that the front companies had "experimented" with putting poisons and other substances into cooldrink and beer, but denied ever supplying agents directly with these "laced" drinks.
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