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Definition of Drinking age
1. Noun. The age at which is legal for a person to buy alcoholic beverages.
Definition of Drinking age
1. Noun. (&lit The least age at which one is permitted by law to drink alcoholic beverages) ¹
2. Noun. (context: poker slang) A two and an ace as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drinking Age
Literary usage of Drinking age
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Prevention Plus III: Assessing Alcohol & Other Drug Prevention Programs at by Jean A. Linney, Abraham Wandersman (1993)
"Strict Enforcement of Minimum drinking age Part A: Make a list of the primary
goals of the program. Ask yourself: "What were we trying to accomplish? ..."
2. Research and Intervention: Preventing Substance Abuse in Higher Education by Clement Vonnie V. (1997)
"For example, there is considerable evidence that the minimum legal drinking age
affects the number of automobile crashes among affected age groups (Cook ..."
3. Healthy People 2000: National Health Promotion & Disease Prevention by DIANE Publishing Company (2004)
"28 Now that the legal drinking age has been raised to 21 in all States, progress
on the objective can be achieved through stricter enforcement of the ..."
4. Rural Substance Abuse: State of Knowledge & Issues edited by Elizabeth B. Robertson (1999)
"Because alcohol use by young people was identified as an underlying cause of
traffic deaths, the solution proposed was to raise the minimum drinking age to ..."
5. Youth & Drugs: Society's Mixed Messages edited by Hank Resnik (1994)
"The beer market, growing at the rate of 3 to 4 percent a year in the 1960s (when
the baby boom generation reached drinking age), went flat in the 1980s. ..."
6. Drinking and Driving: Research Findings (1990)
"The most successful legislative measures to reduce drinking and driving among
youth were those raising the minimum drinking age to 21 years in all States ..."
7. Young Drivers: The Road to Safety by OECD/ECMT Transport Research Centre (2006)
"A review of more than 49 studies of changes in the legal drinking age revealed
that, after states raised the drinking age, alcohol- related traffic crashes ..."
8. Prevention Plus II: Tools for Creating and Sustaining Drug-Free Communities (1994)
"The draft of a goal statement that reflected the problem was phrased in very
general terms: "Improve enforcement of the minimum drinking age off campus. ..."
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