hi everybody and welcome back to top
words my name is Alisha and today we're going to talk about ten words that you
can use at a bar let's go to buy a round the first expression is to buy a round
to buy a round means to buy a round of drinks essentially a round of drinks
means one drink for everyone in your group one drink for everyone in your
party by the way the word party is used to mean group at a bar or restaurant the
number of people in your party is the number of people in your group so to buy
a round means to buy a drink for everybody in a sentence
our boss began the party by buying everyone around in a different sentence
you're buying the next round on the rocks the next expression is on
the rocks on the rocks is a way to order a drink when you say on the rocks it
means your drink on ice only so rocks are the ice in your glass
so you can imagine the ice the pieces of ice in your glass the ice cubes or an
ice ball these are like rocks so saying I'd like whisky for example on
the rocks means just whisky served over ice that's what on the rocks mean so in
a sentence I'd like a gin on the rocks straight up
the next expression is straight up so a straight up drink is different from an
on the rocks drink a straight up drink is chilled with ice but it's strained so
there's no ice in the drink but it is it has been chilled with ice so a straight
up drink there's nothing else in the glass but it is a chilled drink in a
sentence I'd like a martini straight up some people use the word straight or
straight up but they mean neat which is the next word we're going to talk about
so keep in mind straight or straight up means chilled that's one of the key
points here so yeah a martini straight up is a chilled martini neat so the next
expression is neat to order a drink neat means the drink is
not chilled and there is no ice it's just it's just the the alcohol it's just
the liquor there's nothing special about it a neat drink is only the drink that's
it nothing happens to it so in a sentence
I'd like a whiskey neat pint half pint the next expression is really two
expressions these are words you use when you order beer they are pint and half
pint depending on the country that you live in pint can be a different size
they vary by a few milliliters depending on the country where you live in a half
pint then is roughly half of the pint size so a half pint and a pint are two
ways two sizes we use to order beer in a sentence can I have a half pint of this
stout chaser the next expression is chaser so a chaser is something you use
to follow an alcoholic drink chasers are often used after shots so shots are
small drinks that are usually kind of strong and alcohol content and they have
a very strong taste so some people like to have something after that they call
it a chaser so the image is that the the second drink is chasing the first drink
into your body you can think of it that way the chaser is a non-alcoholic drink
so it could be water it could be soda it could be something like that juice maybe
so chaser in a sentence shots of tequila are often followed with chasers to be
tipsy the next word is to be tipsy to be tipsy is a way to describe your feeling
when you're drinking so if you can imagine when you're when you're standing
straight up when you're standing it's regular you're very like confident and
tall and you don't move very much but if you feel tipsy this comes from the verb
to tip like this so something tips to one side or another think of your body
in this way so we use the word tipsy the adjective tipsy to describe this feeling
maybe you're not so steady on your feet you could tip over
at anytime that's called being tipsy from alcohol okay so in a sentence let's
see I'm a little tipsy I need some water to be drunk the next expression is to be
drunk so we talked about the word tipsy so tipsy is a little bit like a little
unsteady but drunk is just a mess just you're just a disaster
you're being noisy you're being loud it's difficult to control your body or
your friends body whatever so drunk is usually a seen as a negative thing so
yeah so drunk expresses yeah it's it's just not pretty sometimes
so in a sentence your friend is drunk let's take him home to call it a night
the next expression is to call it a night to call it a night means to decide
to finish at the bar to go home you're ready to be done so here I'm going to
call it I'm going to say this is tonight tonight is finished hmm
so in a sentence it's been a long evening I'm gonna call it a night I mean
I'm going to go home I'm done it's a casual expression hangover and then one
more that you can use maybe the day after you visit a bar is hangover so a
hangover is a noun hangover is the word we use to describe the feelings after
drinking too much so maybe you feel sick to your stomach you have a headache your
body is sore there are a number of different feelings you might have when
you feel hung over to be hungover is another way to say it but when you have
a hangover it usually doesn't feel very good in a sentence I have a hangover
today I'm not going drinking tonight all right so that's the end those are ten
words that you can use at the bar if you have any questions or if there are other
words that you like to use when you go out for drinks let us know in the
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