Root beer definitions

Root beer

1) Ale-like soft drink 2) American drink 3) Classic A&W soda 4) Cuisine of Philadelphia 5) Fizzy quaff 6) Float flavor 7) Float ingredient, often 8) Float need 9) Float soft drink 10) Hires 11) Hires for a float 12) Hires output 13) Hires stuff 14) Kind of float 15) Pop flavor 16) Sarsaparilla kin 17) Soda flavor
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Root beer

Root beer is a carbonated, sweetened beverage, originally made using the root of the sassafras tree, or its bark, as the primary flavor. Root beer, popularized in North America, comes in two forms: alcoholic and soft drink. The historical root beer was analogous to small beer in that the process provided a drink with a very low alcohol content. Al...
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root beer

(from the article `sassafras`) ...aromatic leaf, bark, and root of which are used as a flavouring, as a traditional home medicine, and as a tea. The roots yield about 2 percent oil ...
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root beer

[n] - carbonated drink containing extracts of roots and herbs
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root beer

noun carbonated drink containing extracts of roots and herbs
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Root Beer

Created in the mid-1800s by pharmacist Charles Hires. The original root beer was very low in alcohol, and was made by fermenting a blend of sugar and yeast with various roots, herbs, and barks such as sarsaparilla and sassafras.
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