英和和英

語源

Blend of alcohol +‎ pop (“sweetened carbonated drink”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈæl.kəʊ.pɒp/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈæl.koʊ.pɑp/, /ˈæl.kə.pɑp/

名詞

alcopop (usually uncountable, plural alcopops)

1. (British, Ireland, Australia) An alcoholic drink that looks and tastes like a soft drink.
   • 1999, Stanton Peel, Marcus Grant, editors, Alcohol and Pleasure: a health perspective:

     However, the media soon went too far in playing the story up, claiming that underage drinkers drank only alcopop (actually they preferred cheap cider).

   • 2003 January 23, Dave Haslam, London Review of Books:

     The breweries began to develop alcopops with names and advertising drawn from drug culture.

   • 2004 June 3, Andrew O'Hagan, London Review of Books:

     Over on cheap flights from Prestwick and Stansted, these boys were often to be found floating trouserless in the Liffey at dawn, or staggering up Grafton Street, their T-shirts clinging to them with alcopops and spilled Sambuca.

参考

• premix (Australia)
• cooler (Canada)
• malternative

アナグラム

• Coppola