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Answer for the clue "Drinker's salute ", 5 letters:
toast

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Word definitions for toast in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"piece of bread browned by fire or dry heat," early 15c., from toast (v.1); originally as something added to wine, ale, etc. From 17c. in the modern sense as something eaten on its own with a spread. Slang meaning "a goner, person or thing already doomed ...

Usage examples of toast.

The Federicos were impressed and adulatory, proposing toast after toast from the jeroboam of Mouton Cadet they had contributed to the meal.

Rom had shared a rare moment of rapport in their guilty, private pleasure every time Dukat came to the bar with whoever his latest comfort woman was and regaled her with the story of Admiral Alkene, ending with a grandiloquent toast and salute to the mural.

The large platter also contained smoked salmon, pickled herring, liver pate, melba toast, bagels and cream cheese, artichoke hearts and slices of Kiwi fruit and papaya.

CUMMINGS helped himself to a piece of bacon from the platter in front of Asey, took a reflective bite, and absent - mindedly reached out for the slice of toast which had just popped out of the toaster.

When the eggs are nicely poached, remove the eggs, with the asparagus below, on to rounds of toasted and buttered bread.

Asterion a cup, and Asterion put a smile on his face, nodding cheerfully to Edward when the king looked at him, and toasted William of Normandy with wine while in his heart he cursed him.

The sun in El Bahar had tanned him to the color of toast, and lightened his hair in streaks.

I propose a toast to the bravery of General Basha and General Alick, the bravery of all the Torlick and Venturi.

At half-past nine Mrs Botham would emerge in processional triumph, bearing the small metropolis on her tray: the twin stacks of toast woozy with butter, the boiling pink tea so powerful that it made the mouth cry, the fanned brown biscuits like the sleeping dogs on the tin from which they came.

And after Sunny moved aside three chunks of cold cheese, a large can of water chestnuts, and an eggplant as big as herself, she finally found a small jar of boysenberry jam, and a loaf of bread she could use to make toast, although it was so cold it felt more like a log than a breakfast ingredient.

He had stood at her side during the toasts and the cutting of the christening cake, and after Randolph had finished speaking, he had made a toast himself.

As Cozy walked back in with the Daily Camera still wrapped, Alan slid the entire first batch of French toast onto a plate.

Imbri sent, her dreamlet showing the monster yelping as he got toasted on the rump by a burning brand.

Mevrouw van Duyl, reading her post and drinking coffee, looked up to wish her a friendly good morning, Estelle was smoking a cigarette in a long holder and listening to a low-voiced monologue from Doctor Peters, and the master of the house sat at the head of his table, making inroads into his toast and marmalade and looking as black as thunder.

Comtesse, that our shows today will be pelted with vegetables instead of flowers, when the jossers fail to see the pink-clad equestrienne who has for so many months been our star attraction and the toast of all Paris.