Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A beverage made of beer or ale mixed with lemonade, ginger ale, or another soft drink.
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- noun uncountable A drink made by mixing
beer andlemonade . - noun countable A glass of this drink.
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Examples
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A shandy is a part-beer (typically a light, sessionable, lager) and part lemonade (or ginger beer).
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A shandy is a part-beer (typically a light, sessionable, lager) and part lemonade (or ginger beer).
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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Mr. Policeman, I went to England with my grandma last summer, and I had a can of shandy, which is beer mixed with lemonade.
Going Too Far Jennifer Echols 2009
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A beer and a shandy were her limit and I know we dont drink much anymore but come on.
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A beer and a shandy were her limit and I know we dont drink much anymore but come on.
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And maybe on a very hot day a shandy, which is a mixture of beer and lemonade.
Blog updates 2009
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It's a lemonade-ish beer a "shandy" is typically half lemonade, half wheat beer that goes down well bitterly cold.
Archive 2007-08-01 2007
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It's a lemonade-ish beer a "shandy" is typically half lemonade, half wheat beer that goes down well bitterly cold.
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Like "just A moment," the album sees the act expanding the posthardcore sounds that dominated their early releases. "shandy" starts as an experimental pop song filled with dizzying distorted noises and then morphs into a dramatic rocker. "this is is this?" is the disc's most dynamic composition.
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He called it "shandy," and I felt as though the lemon soda was being punished.
NPR Topics: News 2010
meangrape commented on the word shandy
Variants include beer with sprite
November 26, 2007
uselessness commented on the word shandy
*cough*
November 26, 2007