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means A general term for alcoholic drinks, especially the distilled kind — whiskey, vodka, gin, rum, and their stronger-proofed kin.

from From Latin liquor, 'a fluid, liquid state,' from liquere, 'to be liquid or clear' — the same root behind 'liquid' and 'liquefy.' It traveled into Old French as 'licour' and then into English simply meaning any liquid substance, medicinal or otherwise. Only gradually did it narrow its focus, souring on water and juice, until by a few centuries back it had settled almost exclusively on the fermented and especially the distilled stuff — a word that once meant everything wet ending up pointing at whiskey.