bitters has definitions from the field of food
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[ noun ] (food) alcoholic liquor flavored with bitter herbs and roots

Used in print

(Robert Penn Warren, Wilderness....)

A quarter inch this way or that for the hardbake , or the toffee , or the barley sugar , or the sardines , or the bitters , or the condensed_milk , or the stationery , or the needles - what could it mean ?

Related terms

liquor

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