Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Korean liquor usually distilled from rice.
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- noun A
Korean distilled alcoholic beverage, similar tosake .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In fact, Nobu and Matsuhisa restaurants will soon be carrying their own private label soju, Gallus may pour you a sample, or prepare for you a tasty cocktail called "Shiroi Usagi" which translates to "White Rabbit" and is a blend of soju and a Japanese soft drink called Calpico, served with a tiny red Japanese peach.
Alison Stein Wellner: From Hitchhikers to Private Jets: The Season in Aspen Begins 2008
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I think soju is vile, and I don’t touch that stuff unless I have to.
BREAKING: Korean feast not impossible with wine! | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010
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A bar that had been decorated with empty bottles of Korean rice liquor, called soju, suffered a direct hit from a North Korean shell.
After Attack, Korean Island Is a Ghost of Its Former Self Evan Ramstad 2010
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So we ordered a bottle of straight soju, which is very wife-beater-wearing Korean man classy.
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So we ordered a bottle of straight soju, which is very wife-beater-wearing Korean man classy.
Archive 2006-05-01 2006
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All the shochu that I have tasted is more like single-malt whiskey; soju is likebad bathtub gin, with the exception of Andong soju, which is made in more of a craft tradition.
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On average its about 6% alcohol making it more appropriate to drink with a meal in a nice setting rather than soju which is often drunk during more casual outings.
Korean feast: impossible food-wine pairing?!? | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010
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On the other hand traditionally brewed soju made from rice, as opposed to mass market soju which is diluted grain alcohol distilled from tapioca, can compete with any sake in delicacy and complexity, and other traditional rice or herbal liquors can be pretty fabulous also.
BREAKING: Korean feast not impossible with wine! | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010
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It's a martini made with soju, a clear, rice-based Korean spirit that's similar to vodka in distillation and taste, but sweeter.
Mandu's sojutini: A sunburn slayer? Alex Baldinger 2010
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The soju, sweet potato cousin of vodka, was flowing in Koreatown that payday Friday night when the call came in.
Shortcut Man P. G. Sturges 2011
undisclosedassociation commented on the word soju
a distilled liquor, made from rice, often described as the Korean vodka. Popular as shots, mixed into cocktails (sojutinis took off in the U.S. because soju can be sold under a beer & wine license), and dunked into glasses of beer to make "bomb" alcohol a la Irish Car Bombs. Example sentence: "For some reason, I never feel or look as happy as the actresses on the soju advertisements after a 2-bottles-of-soju night."
June 9, 2009