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countable and uncountable, plural beverages
(chiefly Canada, US) A liquid to consume; a drink, such as tea, coffee, liquor, beer, milk, juice, or soft drinks, usually excluding water. quotations examples
He knew no Beverage but the flowing Stream; / His taſteful well-earn'd Food the ſilvan Game, […]
1748, James Thomson, “Canto II”, in The Castle of Indolence: […], London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], stanza VII, page 44
[W]here coffee is used as a constant beverage, the gravel and the gout are scarcely known.
1848, J. S. Skinner & Son, editor, The Plough, The Loom and the Anvil, volume I, Philadelphia: J. S. Skinner & Son, page 137
(Britain, slang, archaic) (A gift of) drink money.