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Answer for the clue "Whiskey with a beer chaser ", 11 letters:
boilermaker

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A boilermaker is a trained craftsman who produces steel fabrications from plates and sections. Boilermaker may also refer to: Boilermaker (beer cocktail) , a drink Purdue Boilermakers , Purdue University's intercollegiate athletics teams A student or alumnus ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A person qualified to make or repair boilers. 2 (context US English) A whiskey with a beer chaser.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a maker of boilers for engines," 1814, from boiler (n.) + maker . Meaning "shot of whiskey with a glass of beer" is short for boilermaker's delight (1910), strong cheap whiskey, so called in jest from the notion that it would clean the scales from the ...

Usage examples of boilermaker.

The girl moves toward him, toward the stool next to his, where her boilermaker demands attention now.

Those who remember the Poletown neighborhood before the old Dodge Main plant was taken down recall the sight of women in babushkas buying and selling poultry in the Chene-Ferry Market and ox-shouldered line-workers fisting boilermakers in the Round Bar between shifts.

Purdue Boilermakers hopelessly late behind him, both of them reduced to watching.

After numerous rounds of boilermakers and an equal number of arguments about the current baseball season, they were shocked and dismayed to see a couple of Army guys jauntily walk in.

Be a nice title for a novel, I thought, Boilermakers in the Afternoon.

Some kid with a rock, as LeBay had said - or maybe a little accident coming home from the VFW hall after a night of drinking boilermakers and telling stories about the Battle of the Bulge or Pork Chop Hill.

I'm the local party secretary and shop steward of the mineworkers union for the boilermakers shop.

Even at Top Gun after a long night of boilermakers, even Navy fighter pilots don't talk like this.