Dictionary

alcopop en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈæl.kə.pɑp/ (US)
• /ˈæl.kəʊ.pɒp/ (UK)
• /ˈæl.koʊ.pɑp/ (US)
• (Australia) audio

Etymology

Blend of alcohol + pop (“sweetened carbonated drink”).

Meanings

1. (Australia, Ireland, UK, uncountable, usually) An alcoholic drink that looks and tastes like a soft drink.
   • Over on cheap flights from Prestwick and Stansted, these boys were often to be found floating trouserless in the Liffey at dawn, or staggering up Grafton Street, their T-shirts clinging to them with alcopops and spilled Sambuca. 2004 June 3, Andrew O'Hagan, London Review of Books:
   • However, the media soon went too far in playing the story up, claiming that underage drinkers drank only alcopop (actually they preferred cheap cider). 1999, Stanton Peel, Marcus Grant, editors, Alcohol and Pleasure: a health perspective:
   • The breweries began to develop alcopops with names and advertising drawn from drug culture. 2003 January 23, Dave Haslam, London Review of Books:

Forms

Relateds

malternative · premix · cooler

Translations (5)

no rusbrus (type of alcoholic drink) · sv alkoläsk (type of alcoholic drink) · ru отвёртка (type of alcoholic drink) · fi limualkoholi (type of alcoholic drink) · fi limuviina (type of alcoholic drink)