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lager

nounverbnounverbattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈlɑːɡə//
  • United States//ˈlɑɡɚ//

A type of beer, brewed using a bottom-fermenting yeast.

noun

  1. 1

    A type of beer, brewed using a bottom-fermenting yeast.

    The 40-year-old [Mike Skinner] is happy to put his body on the line in other ways, swapping a mug of tea for a fan's double pint of lager and messily necking it in one.

Etymology

From German Lagerbier (“beer made for storing”), from Lager (“store”). Cognate with native English lair.

verb

  1. 1

    To store (lager beer) at a low temperature for maturing and clarification.

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of laagerAlternative spelling of laager.

verb

  1. 1

    Variant of laagerAlternative spelling of laager.

Forms

plural
lagers
past tense
lagered
past participle
lagered
present participle
lagering
third person singular
lagers
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).