hard liquor

hard liquor

Any distilled alcoholic beverage, such as whiskey, vodka, gin, etc. "Hard" here is a reference to the higher percentage of alcohol in comparison to wine or beer. Primarily heard in US, Canada. I've learned to steer clear of hard liquor if I want to avoid a hangover the next day!
See also: hard, liquor
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

hard liquor

Distilled alcoholic beverages, such as gin or whiskey. For example, We're serving wine and beer but no hard liquor. The hard here refers to their high alcoholic content, which is also true for hard cider, although the latter is not distilled but has simply fermented.
See also: hard, liquor
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

hard liquor

n. potent liquor such as whiskey, gin, rum, etc. Stay off of hard liquor until your stomach feels better.
See also: hard, liquor
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • Black Russian
  • Russian
  • tiger milk
  • tiger('s) milk
  • tiger‘s milk
  • tiger juice
  • tiger('s) juice
  • tiger('s) sweat
  • tiger sweat
  • snakebite medicine
References in periodicals archive
The tax on hard liquor would be imposed on distributors when they buy it from manufacturers; that tax hasn't been raised in the state since 1991.
With more locations, more people are buying hard liquor.
An investigation by the Customs revealed that the domestic helper had taken several cans of juice and bottles of hard liquor from the hotel room fridge in the Gulf country and put them in the bag without telling her employers.
Customers can only buy hard liquor by the bottle in 315 state and contract stores.
According to alcohol consumption figures from the Finnish National R&D Centre for Welfare and Health, sales of hard liquor are higher in Finland than in other Nordic countries.
Where there are quiet stairwells or abandoned alleys, fortune-tellers offer tarot-card readings, inebriation is another form of indulgence common to Kabukicho, the hard liquor and ear-splitting bon-homie that are prerequisites of the male, after-office groups that roam the quarter, quickly turning their complexions into a hue not unlike iron oxide.
Beer drinkers scored again in another study that showed that wine and hard liquor cause a rise in blood homocysteine levels.
From hard liquor ads to political advertising, from broadcast ownership to the future of the Internet, Kennard has started off leaning one way but ended up leaning the other.
Scientists divided study participants into nondrinkers and regular consumers of beer, wine, or hard liquor. The team recorded sociological data as well as each subject's waist-to-hip ratio.
The detectives in these stories were not the amateur gentlemen, lady gardeners, or police inspectors of the British puzzlers but came across as hard, dangerous mensmart-talking cynics with a taste for beautiful women, hard liquor, and smoking pistols.
Keep in mind that wine and beer have less alcohol than hard liquor, and that alcohol metabolizes into fat.
And hard liquor is now advertised predominantly on Spanish-language television.
Colombo: Fitch Ratings said Sri Lanka's beer industry will regain market share from hard liquor following a more favourable tax regime for the segment announced in the Sri Lankan government's budget on 9 November.
Stanford University has banned hard liquor at undergraduate parties on campus, according to the (http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ca1831f2603b40708fe3b44134dad563/stanford-bans-hard-liquor-undergraduate) Associated Press .
RAWALPINDI, October 02, 2010 (Frontier Star): Rawat Police has made arrest of four drug dealers and recovered huge quantity of hard liquor, under the special instructions of City Police Officer (CPO) Rawalpindi, Fakhar Sultan Raja, said police.