Frequently with the. Designating an (alcoholic) drink of an amber or light brown colour. Now usually: spec. (chiefly Australian) designating beer…

An alcoholic drink of an amber colour. Now usually: spec. beer, esp. lager (sometimes specifically Foster's lager; see note). Cf. amber, adj. 1b.

A light beer, consumed largely in Germany and America, and to some extent in England.

= lager beer, n. Also, a drink of this.

A pale-coloured lager beer with a strong hop flavour, of a style originating in Plzeň but also produced elsewhere. Also more fully pilsner beer, pil…

= Pilsner, n.

Pilsner beer, or beer of a type resembling this; a drink of such beer.