bock beer

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Etymology

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From German Bockbier, from Bock + Bier (beer). The former component is a southern German alteration of Einbeck, a brewery town in Lower Saxony, where the beer originally hails from. The Low German placename suffix -beck (-brook) was reinterpreted in southern dialects as the plural of Bock (buck).

Noun

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bock beer (plural bock beers)

  1. A strong, dark lager of German origin.

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