Drinking Age (Noun)
Meaning
The age at which is legal for a person to buy alcoholic beverages.
Classification
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations.
Examples
- In most countries, the drinking age is set at 18, while in the United States it's 21 years old.
- Some states are considering lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18.
- Raising the drinking age to 25 has been proposed in an effort to reduce binge drinking.
- When she turned 18, she celebrated her new status by going to a bar, but only where the drinking age allowed her to.
- He traveled to countries with lower drinking ages, and enjoyed sampling the local beer at a younger age than he could at home.