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DRINKING AGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The age at which is legal for a person to buy alcoholic beverages
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("drinking age" is a kind of...):
age; eld (a time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises)
Holonyms ("drinking age" is a part of...):
adulthood; maturity (the period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed)