likker

[ lik-er ]

noun

, Eye Dialect.

1. liquor.

Example Sentences

Americans often wax poetic about the traditional dishes found on their Thanksgiving tables — casseroles of sweet potatoes with toasted marshmallow topping, collard greens swimming in pot likker, tamales stuffed with green chiles and roasted pork.

From Washington Post

Home & Family Singer-actress Katharine McPhee; chef Carla Hall prepares greens with smoked paprika pot likker.

From Los Angeles Times

“Whatchall mean? Y’all ain’t gonna drink my stuff? This is the best corn likker in the county! It’d be sacker-lijus not to drink it!”

From Literature

The scent of fermenting likker.

From Wall Street Journal

Hell, their wives have lost their teeth and their shape, and likker won’t set on their stomachs, and they don’t believe in God, so it’s up to you to give ’em something to stir ’em up and make ’em feel alive again.

From New York Times