Any of various strong liquors especially a Dutch spirit distilled from potatoes.
1 Hard task for us Britons to like a Dutchman who dethrones his father-in-law, and drinks schnaps !
2 I darted to and fro from the bar, laden with mugs of beer and glasses of schnaps , incessantly, up and down.
3 It amounted to no more, in spite of all the beer and schnaps of the previous evening, than one dollar and four groschens.
4 Waiter, a round of SCHNAPS !
5 "Frau Schnaps , " Beethoven's housekeeper during the latter years of his life; called also "The Fast-sailing Frigate" and "The Old Goose."
6 'Why, then, good-morning to you, for business must be minded-unlessye'll go aboard and take schnaps ; you shall have a pouch-fullof tea ashore.
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