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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
schnapps
noun
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▪ Relax with a glass of chilled local wine or schnapps from the ship's bar while you take in the breathtaking scenery.
▪ She refused the offer of a glass of schnapps.
▪ Stefan looked at the schnapps and winced.
▪ The schnapps was poured, the glasses dispensed, and Frau Schmidt sent simpering back to the kitchen.
▪ The unusual theme was carried through the entire wedding, with vodka and schnapps served at the back of the church.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Schnapps

Schnapps \Schnapps\, n. [G., a dram of spirits.] Holland gin. [U.S.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
schnapps

1818, kind of Holland gin, from German Schnaps, literally "a mouthful, gulp," from Low German snaps, from snappen "to snap" (see snap (v.)). For sense, compare nip for "alcoholic drink quickly taken."

Wiktionary
schnapps

n. 1 (context uncountable English) A type of distilled alcoholic beverage, often with a fruit or peppermint flavoring. 2 (context countable English) A serving of this beverage.

WordNet
schnapps

n. any of various strong liquors especially a Dutch spirit distilled from potatoes [syn: schnaps]

Wikipedia
Schnapps

Schnapps ( or ) is a "strong alcoholic drink resembling gin and often flavored with fruit." The English word "schnapps" is derived from the German Schnaps (plural: Schnäpse), a Low German noun meaning "swallow" documented in High German meaning since before the 18th century.

Usage examples of "schnapps".

Usually at this hour Blobel is in his van or at quarters in town if the section is not too far out in the sticks, quaffing schnapps to chase off the morning chill.

They had their warm apple strudel, and tiny glasses of powerful Schwarzbeer schnapps from the nearby farm, while sitting in front of a roaring log fire.

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The spit hit Roland Weary's shoulder, gave Weary a fourragière of snot and blutwurst and tobacco juice, and Schnapps.

Shaftoe shows up with a bottle of Finnish schnapps, Bischoff brings a loaf of bread, Root breaks out a tin of fish.

Usually at this hour Blobel is in his van or at quarters in town if the section is not too far out in the sticks, quaffing schnapps to chase off the morning chill.

Second, the meeting will be held around Old Man Gosselin's Franklin stove and half those attending will be shot on peppermint schnapps or coffee brandy.

Then his mouth was on hers, seeking, questing, tasting like the cinnamon schnapps in a hot toddy.

When dinner was over she brought a plate of petit fours in silver wrappers and a bottle of schnapps.

Bavarian beer, Swedish schnapps, Danzig goldwasser - he had drunk of them all, just as he had eaten Westphalian ham and Italian beccaficoes and Turkish rahat lakoum.

Bavarian beer, Swedish schnapps, Danzig goldwasser he had drunk of them all, just as he had eaten Westphalian ham and Italian beccaficoes and Turkish rahat lakoum.

He served them a German breakfast, beginning with schnapps, thin-sliced Westphalian ham garnished with pickles and accompanied by pumpernickel bread.