noun
General Slang
minerals
· noun · irish
Fizzy drinks. Coke, 7Up, Club Orange — the lot.
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Soft drinks. Anything sweet and fizzy in a bottle or can. The word that catches tourists out at Irish weddings when the bar lists 'pints, shorts and minerals'.
“I'm driving, I'll just have a mineral.”
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minerals In A Sentence
I'm driving, I'll just have a mineral.
Origin & Usage
Short for 'mineral waters' — the Victorian term for carbonated soft drinks, which got fossilised in Irish English long after the rest of the world moved on to 'soda' or 'fizzy drink'.
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