liquor
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1 parsley sauce (n.) C2 Proficiency British English Dialect Cookinga green parsley sauce served with traditional British pie and mash.
a specific savoury parsley sauce traditionally served in London pie-and-mash shops.
ExampleHe ordered a traditional beef pie with a side of mash and plenty of green liquor.
ExampleThe authentic London experience requires the pie to be submerged in a generous portion of parsley liquor rather than standard gravy.
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2 industrial liquid (n.) C2 Proficiency Technical Sciencea liquid used in a factory process to dissolve or change something.
a solution of chemicals used in industrial processes, particularly in papermaking or tanning.
ExampleThe factory treated the spent liquor before releasing it into the drainage system.
ExampleIn the pulping process, the black liquor is recovered and processed to reclaim inorganic chemicals for reuse in the plant.
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3 to provide alcohol (v.) C1 Advanced Informalto give someone a lot of alcohol to drink.
to supply someone with intoxicating drink, often with the intent of making them drunk.
ExampleThey tried to liquor him up before asking for a favour.
ExampleThe lobbyists were known to liquor up the delegates in hopes of influencing the final vote on the trade agreement.
UsageUsually appears in the phrasal form 'liquor up'.
From Middle English licour, from Anglo-Norman licour, from Latin liquor (“fluidity, liquidness, a fluid, a liquid”), from liquere (“to be fluid or liquid”); see liquid. Doublet of liqueur.