drink Archives - British Slang Dictionary

Pimm’s

Pimm's is a dark reddish-brown liqueur, gin-based, flavoured with herbs, spices and quinine, and drunk almost exclusively between May and…

Scotch whisky is Britain's single largest food and drink export, worth several billion pounds a year, and it is one…

Gin is a spirit flavoured predominantly with juniper — that is the legal definition, and everything else is variation. It…

Irn-Bru is a bright orange carbonated soft drink made in Scotland, and it occupies a place in Scottish life somewhere…

The pub is the single most important social institution in Britain that is not the family, and it works on…

Tea is not really a drink in Britain. It is a social reflex, a unit of time, a way of…