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- "Beverage" redirects here. For the rock band, see Beverage (band).
The word drink is primarily a verb, meaning to ingest liquids. As a noun, it refers to the liquid thus ingested. It is often used in a narrower sense to refer to alcoholic beverages (as both a verb and a noun). Drink is also slang for a body of water, such as an ocean or a water hazard on a golf course (e.g. "He hit that one into the drink."). To drink in is also used metaphorically, as in to drink in the scenery.
A beverage is a drink specifically prepared for human consumption. Beverages almost always largely consist of water. Water is essential for living, significantly more so than food. Death will usually occur after 1 week without any liquids but humans have been known to survive some months without food.
The most popular bevarage worldwide is water. Tea is the second most popular, and then coffee comes next.
Drinks often consumed include:
- Juice
- Fruit juices
- Nectars
- Vegetable juices
- Sap
- Sugar cane juice
- Maple sugar sap
- Cactus juice
- Soft drinks
- Aguas frescas
- Ades (non-carbonated, primarily sugar water)
- Fruit drinks (Hi-C etc.)
- Lemonade
- Limeade
- Orange drink (Tang etc.)
- Squash
- Powdered drinks (Kool-aid etc.)
- Syrup drinks (Zarex etc.)
- Frozen ades
- Hawaiian Ice
- Slush
- Snow cone
Vanilla-flavored
Coca-Cola
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- Carbonated beverages
- Carbonated water
- Fermented soft drinks (in their original form, many are now made from syrup and carbonated water).
- Cola (Coca-Cola etc.)
- Birch beer
- Dandelion and burdock
- Ginger ale
- Ginger beer
- Moxie
- Root beer
- Sarsaparilla
- Other carbonated soft drinks
- Citrus soft drinks (7-up etc.)
- Cream soda
- Energy drink
- Irn Bru
- Kofola
- Sports drinks (Gatorade etc.)
- Dairy drinks
- Flavored milk
- Frozen Dairy drinks
- Cream
- Eggnog
- Horchata
- Kumis
- Milkshake
- Milk
- Yogurt drink
- Yoo-hoo
- Non-dairy variants
- Almond milk
- Rice milk
- Soy milk
- Alcoholic beverages (which see for classification).
- Non-alcoholic variants
- Near beer
- Non-alcoholic wine
- Sparkling cider
- Hot beverages, including infusions. Sometimes drunk chilled.
- Coffee-based beverages
- Hot chocolate
- Hot cider
- Tea-based beverages
- Flavored teas (chai etc.)
- Iced tea
- Pearl milk tea
- Tea
- Herbal teas
- Roasted grain beverages (Postum etc.)
Some substances may either be called food or drink, and accordingly be eaten with a spoon or drunk, depending on solid ingredients in it and on how thick it is, and on preference:
Hot beverages like coffee can cause scalding when drunk before cooling, or spilled. See McDonald's coffee case.
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