question on coomon usage of the word "drink"?

Question

when people say "i had two drinks" what exactly is the amount of alcohol they are refering to ?

is it 2*1.5 oz or 2*1 oz??

Thanks

Answer 1

They're not referring to anything "exactly"
A 'drink' is generally referred to any alcoholic beverage, so the actual total amount and the amount of alcohol can vary. Two shots can be 2 * 1oz or 1.5 oz, depending on the bartender. One long island iced tea and a beer can be 6 oz and 12 oz (gross) and 6 oz of alcohol (net)

You can put together any combination of drinks and come up with as many different totals in volume & alcohol.

Furthermore, 1 oz of 80 proof liquor has less alcohol than 1.5 oz of 151 proof alcohol, so what's mixed into the drink adds one more variable.

Nothing exact just by the word "drink."

Answer 2

A drink should be a 12 oz beer, a 1 oz shot (or a cocktail made with it,) or a 4 oz glass of wine. Of course, that's not necessarily what a person means at all when they say, "I had two drinks." It could be two pint glasses of beer in a bar, which is more like 2 2/3 drinks under that definition. Two stiff cocktails might be more like four drinks. And wine glasses tend to be on the (sometimes very) large side these days.

Answer 3

A drink of hard alcohol is usually 1.5 oz.

Answer 4

3 oz

Answer 5

a drink includes 1 oz. sometimes the bartenders are nice and give more. My drinks are usually 3-4.

Answer 6

Depends where you are.

In England "I had two drinks" means four pints and a kebab.

Answer 7

you could probably assume, 2 shots per drink, but it all depends what they ordered (long island or a martini) and who made them.

Answer 8

that all depends on who is making them