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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ginger ale
noun
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▪ But I fix her her bourbon and ginger ale with the dash of ReaLemon just the way she likes it.
▪ Fresh coffee and cookies, punch with ginger ale and lime sherbet floating in it.
▪ Ham and cheese and a ginger ale sounds great.
▪ His friend stood on the porch with him, agitating in his hand a paper cup full of whisky and ginger ale.
▪ Make it a glass of plain ginger ale.
▪ Mike poured me a Johnny Walker Black, then filled his own glass with ginger ale.
▪ We had some cans of ginger ale in a cooler, but they had gone bad, exploded.
▪ We made small talk to everyone we knew and I drank rather a lot of gin and ginger ale.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ginger ale

Ginger \Gin"ger\, n. [OE. ginger, gingever, gingivere, OF. gengibre, gingimbre, F. gingembre, L. zingiber, zingiberi, fr. Gr. ?; of Oriental origin; cf. Ar. & Pers. zenjeb[=i]l, fr. Skr. [,c][.r][.n]gav["e]ra, prop., hornshaped; ???ga horn + v["e]ra body.]

  1. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Zingiber, of the East and West Indies. The species most known is Zingiber officinale.

  2. The hot and spicy rootstock of Zingiber officinale, which is much used in cookery and in medicine.

    Ginger ale (a) a soft drink flavored with ginger and carbonated. (a) See ginger beer, below.

    Ginger beer or Ginger ale, a mild beer impregnated with ginger.

    Ginger cordial, a liquor made from ginger, raisins, lemon rind, and water, and sometimes whisky or brandy.

    Ginger pop. See Ginger ale (above).

    Ginger wine, wine impregnated with ginger.

    Wild ginger (Bot.), an American herb ( Asarum Canadense) with two reniform leaves and a long, cordlike rootstock which has a strong taste of ginger.

Wiktionary
ginger ale

n. A non-alcoholic drink flavored with ginger, similar to ginger beer.

WordNet
ginger ale

n. ginger-flavored carbonated drink [syn: ginger pop]

Wikipedia
Ginger ale

Ginger ale is a carbonated soft drink flavoured with ginger in one of two ways. The golden style is credited to the American doctor Thomas Cantrell. The dry style (also called the pale style) is a paler drink with a much milder ginger flavour, and was created by Canadian John McLaughlin.

Usage examples of "ginger ale".

On Ninth Avenue I had a glass of ginger ale at a gay bar called Kid Gloves.

He let me tell it all, stopping only to fill our glasses-mine with ginger ale.

He wondered if he dared get up and go get a bottle of ginger ale out of the fridge.

Bradbury poured himself a stiff jolt of whiskey from the flask, dropped ice into the glass, poured in ginger ale, stirred it with a spoon, and drank half of the glass in three big gulps.

She opened the door, said no one had ordered ginger ale, and it must have been a mistake.

She had a pot of tea with two cups, a glass of iced ginger ale for me.