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near beer

a malt beverage resembling beer but containing no alcohol or no more than a mandated low percentage of alcohol

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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