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1) (in Europe) a place where people can buy and drink coffee, beer, wine, spirits etc (cafe)

2) a drug smoked or chewed to cause high spirits (cannabis)

3) methylated spirits (meths)

4) to go about feeling sad or in low spirits (mope)

5) a meeting for communicating with the spirits of the dead through a medium (seance)

6) a man who practises magic with the help of evil spirits (sorcerer)

7) (in stories) the place where the spirits of the dead exist; the part of society that lives by vice and crime (underworld)

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Meaning:
alcohol

(the pure, colourless liquid as present in) such drinks as beer, wine, brandy, whiskey

intoxicating, flammable liquid

ammonia

a kind of colourless gas with a strong smell, used to make explosives, fertilizers etc

pungent gas, liquid

aperitif

an alcoholic drink e.g. sherry taken before a meal

liquor

cognac

French brandy

liquor

distiller

a person, business, that distils (especially whisky, rakia etc)

booze

draught

(a current of) flowing air in a room, chimney or other enclosed place

concoction prepared for mental or physical effect

drink

(any) liquid for drinking

beverage; alcoholic beverage

liqueur

(a kind of) strong flavoured alcoholic drink, e.g. brandy

liquor

liquor

(a kind of) strong alcoholic drink

drink; alcoholic beverage

potion

a single amount (dose) of liquid medicine, poison etc

concoction prepared for mental or physical effect

state

a condition in which a person or thing is (in appearance, mind, health etc); an organized political community with a government; to express (an opinion etc) in words, especially carefully, fully and clearly

condition or mode of being

whiskey

US and Irish spelling of whisky

booze

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