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  • adjective Without liquor.

Etymologies

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liquor +‎ -less

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Examples

  • As the wheels started coming off Prohibition, the teetotal lobby tried to lure inebriates away from bootleg hooch by promoting "liquorless cocktails."

    Why Do Mocktails Fall Flat? 2009

  • That evening, over liquorless orange juice, Bandar and I spent hours discussing Saudi domestic policy and US-Saudi diplomatic relations.

    Bye-Bye Bandar Steve Sailer 2005

  • That evening, over liquorless orange juice, Bandar and I spent hours discussing Saudi domestic policy and US-Saudi diplomatic relations.

    Archive 2005-07-17 Steve Sailer 2005

  • The effect on the character of the men was still more remarkable; and while in Pretoria I was repeatedly assured that some who had been a perpetual worry to their officers in beer-ridden England, on the beerless veldt, or in the liquorless towns of the Transvaal, speedily took rank among the most reliable men in all their regiment.

    With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back Edward P. Lowry

  • Although I never considered such an extreme oblation again, Dad repeated his liquorless Lenten sacrifice for the next several years.

    Craig Daily Press stories 2009

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