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Implies that an item is out of stock or that someone needs to be ejected from the bar.

-Wikipedia


Alcohol By Volume

Alcohol By Volume, or ABV, is a standard measure of how much alcohol is contained in a given volume of an alcoholic beverage.

-Wikipedia


Apéritif

An alcoholic drink consumed to stimulate the appetite before a meal.

-Dictionary


Body

Body refers to the weight or thickness, or strength or intensity, of how a substance feels in the mouth.  Typically it is in reference to beer, wine, coffee, or cigars.  Body can be described as being light-bodied, medium-bodied, or full-bodied with light-bodied being delicate or thin, full-bodied being mouth-filling and rich, and medium-bodied lying somewhere in between.

-BeerTutor


Bottled in Bond

Bottled in Bond, or Bonded, is a label for an American-made distilled beverage that has been aged and bottled according to a set of legal regulations.

-Wikipedia


Chaser

A drink of a milder beverage taken after a drink of liquor.

-Dictionary


Cooler

A cold drink, usually carbonated, fruit-flavored, and containing wine or other alcoholic indgredients.  Also called wine cooler.

-The Free Dictionary


Cordial

In parts of the United States and Canada, liqueurs may also be called cordials or schnapps, while in parts of the Commonwealth of Nations, cordial means a concentrated non-alcoholic fruit syrup that is diluted to taste and consumed as a non-carbonated soft drink.

-Wikipedia


Dash / Splash

A small amount of a liquid added to a drink.  A dash is about a bottle cap full or less, while a splash depends more on personal preference.

-The Ice Co


Double

A drink that is served with twice as much alcohol as a regular single serving.

-EF EnglishLive


Digestif

A drink of brandy, liqueur, etc., taken after a ameal to aid the digestion.

-Dictionary


Dry

Refers to having little to no vermouth added to a cocktail like the classic martini or a manhattan.

-Business Insider


Float

A small amount of liquor layered on top of a drink.

-Wikipedia


IBU

IBU is an abbreviation for the International Bitterness Units scale, a gauge of beer's bitterness and it ranges from zero to over 100.  What IBUs measure are the parts per million of isohumulone found in a beer.  Isohumulone is the acid found in hops that gives beer its bitter bite.

-The Beer Connoisseur


Mocktail / Virgin

A non-alcoholic drink consisting of a mixture of fruit juices or other soft drinks

-Oxford Dictionary


Neat

A single unmixed liquor served without ice and at room temperature.

-Wikipedia


On The Rocks

A drink served on ice.

-Collins Dictionary


Perfect

Refers to having equal parts of dry and sweet vermouth added to a cocktail like the classic martini or a manhattan.

-Business Insider


SRM

The Standard Reference Method, or SRM, is the color system used by brewers to specify finished beer and malt color.  A very pale beer would have an SRM of around 5 whereas a dark stout would have an SRM of around 25-40.

-Oxford Dictionary


Up

A chilled drink served without ice in a martini glass.

-Wikipedia


Wet

Refers to having more vermouth added to a cocktail like the classic martini or a manhattan.

-Business Insider