Talk:chaser

This is incorrect

It currently says: "[#] (Israel) A shot of hard liquor." --Spunionztastic (talk) 22:26, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

RFV discussion: July–November 2018

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chaser

Rfv-sense "(Israel) A shot of hard liquor." On the talk page a user opines that this is incorrect. Googling suggests it may indeed refer to a unit of hard liquor, but possibly a different unit than a shot. - -sche (discuss) 01:17, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

Definitely not just Israel either. DTLHS (talk) 01:18, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

It is a relatively mild drink (e.g. beer) that is taken after a harder one (e.g. whiskey). SemperBlotto (talk) 04:34, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

Yes, that's the sense right before this one (in the entry). But this sense is claiming (and I can find a handful of websites about Israel which suggest this is plausible) that in Israeli English, a unit of hard liquor can be called a "chaser". (But it may be a different unit, i.e. a different amount of hard liquor, than a shot.) - -sche (discuss) 04:40, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 20:34, 24 November 2018 (UTC)

Related to the above: in diff these two senses:

1. (UK) A strong alcoholic drink (such as a spirit) that is drunk after a weaker alcoholic drink.
2. (US) A mild drink consumed immediately after a drink of hard liquor. [from 19th c.]

were combined into just "a drink drunk after another of a different kind". - -sche (discuss) 19:47, 18 July 2021 (UTC)