Beer Slang

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In addition to drunk words and puke words, this list is slang for beer itself as well as other slang involving beer and/or alcohol more generally. If you know of one that’s not listed here, please drop me a note and I’ll add it. Thanks.

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Slang For Beer:

aiming fluid (when playing darts, pool, etc.)
amber nectar
barley pop
barley sandwich (lunchtime)
barley soda
brew
brewski
cold coffee
frostie
frosty pop
glass sandwich
Jesus juice
laughing water (strong beer)
liquid bread
oil
suds
swing oil (when playing golf)
vitamin B

Other Beer Slang:

alcohol abuse: spilling beer
baby beer: macro beer from a big brewery
beer bitch: the person obligated to fetch beer for a person
beer blinders: see “beer goggles”
beer goggles: phenomenon in which the consumption of alcohol makes physically unattractive persons appear beautiful
bitch slap: mixing a 6-pack in the store
block: 30-pack
bomber: 24 oz. package
breaking the seal: urinating for the first time during a drinking session
brick: 12-pack
Britney Spears: light beer
bullet: 22 oz. bottle
buzzkill: something which destroys a buzz, and causes sober thoughts and loss of enjoyment
cheerleaders: beer bottles
church key: bottle opener
depth charge: 24 oz. can
DD: designated driver
double deuce: 22 oz. package
frontloading: drinking before going out to a club/bar/etc., usually due to cost
ponies: 7 oz. bottles
roadside olympics: field sobriety test
road soda: beer for the ride
silo: 24 oz. beer can (Iowa)
slab: case of beer (Australia)
snappy: SNPA = Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
soldiers: beer bottles
- bayoneting the wounded: finishing the “wounded soldiers” the next morning
- dead soldiers: empty beer bottles
- deserter: full bottle lost but found the next day
- fallen soldiers: empty beer bottles
- grenade: partially full beer left unfinished
- POW: a beer you were saving for yourself but was taken from the refrigerator
- spent cartridges: empty beer bottles
- straggler: last bottle in the refrigerator
- wounded soldiers: partially full but abandoned beer bottles
stringer: 6-pack of cans
tall boy: 24 oz. can
time traveling: blacking out
two four: case of beer (Canada)
2 x 4: 24 oz. beer

Slang For Alcohol (Generally & Other Than Beer):

beast (cheap alcohol)
booze
canned heat
do it juice
felony juice (tequila)
fire water
giggle water
hard drink
hooch
inebrient
intoxicant
juice
junkst (cheap alcohol)
liquid courage
moonshine
poison
red-eye (cheap alcohol, originally whisky)
rotgut (cheap alcohol)
sauce
social lubricant
tart fuel (especially alcopops, cider)
tipple
toddy
wobbly pop
yak (Cognac)

Other Alcohol Slang:

barfly: a person, usually female, seeking attention at a bar.
boozehound: a person who likes to drink, and often does so to extreme.
hair of the dog: drinking the day after drinking, while hungover, with the aim of lessening the hangover and/or rallying back to feeling better
souse: someone who drinks to excess.
wet your whistle: to have a drink.