lager-beer

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lager-beer

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Partial calque of German Lagerbier (“beer made for storing”), from Lager (“store”).

noun lager-beers

  1. countable, dated, uncountable lager There was a vast amount of red - good to see at any time, because one knows that some real work is done in there, a deuce of a lot of blue, a little green, smears of orange, and, on the East Coast, a purple patch, to show where the jolly pioneers of progress drink the jolly lager-beer.

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@misc{lager_beer_2026,
  title = {lager-beer},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/lager-beer},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}