noun
General Slang
ginger
· noun · scottish
Fizzy juice — any sweet carbonated soft drink, regardless of actual flavour.
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Definitions
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Generic Glaswegian term for any fizzy soft drink — Coke, Irn-Bru, lemonade, the lot. Doesn't have to contain a molecule of actual ginger. Baffles tourists and English visitors on a regular basis.
“Away to the shops and get us a bottle of ginger, son.”
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Historically a 'ginger bottle' was the empty glass returnable for a deposit — collecting them was a classic Glasgow childhood side-hustle.
“We used to collect ginger bottles to get the deposit back for sweetie money.”
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ginger In A Sentence
Away to the shops and get us a bottle of ginger, son.
We used to collect ginger bottles to get the deposit back for sweetie money.
Origin & Usage
Glasgow, originally from ginger beer being the dominant fizzy drink in late-19th-century Scotland; the name stuck and generalised to all fizzy drinks.
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