schnapps

• schnaps

Borrowed from German Schnaps.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ʃnɑps/, /ʃnæps/

• Audio (Southern England):

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  Rhymes: -æps

schnapps (usually uncountable, plural schnappses or schnapps)

1. (uncountable) A type of distilled alcoholic beverage (liquor), often with a herbal or fruit flavoring, typically drunk neat as an apéritif or digestif.

   apple schnapps; peach schnapps

2. (countable) A serving of this beverage.
   • 2009, Colin Broderick, Orangutan: A Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Three Rivers Press, →ISBN, page 3:

     “What happened?” “You drank about a bottle of vodka and ten peppermint schnapps is what happened. Come on, up.”

Unadapted borrowing from German Schnaps, with spelling influenced by English schnapps.

schnapps m (invariable)

1. alternative spelling of schnaps