Meaning & use
Shandy
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A drink made by mixing beer with a carbonated, non-alcoholic beverage such as lemonade or ginger beer.
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On hot afternoons, he preferred a light shandy to straight beer.
The pub menu listed three flavors of shandy.
A note on using this word
Short for 'shandygaff,' a 19th-century British term for the same mixed drink.
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