soft drink - nonalcoholic beverage (usually carbonated)birch beer - carbonated drink containing an extract from bark of birch trees cola, dope - carbonated drink flavored with extract from Kola nuts (`dope' is a southernism in the United States) cream soda - sweet carbonated drink flavored with vanilla egg cream - made of milk and flavored syrup with soda water phosphate - carbonated drink with fruit syrup and a little phosphoric acid root beer - carbonated drink containing extracts of roots and herbs sarsaparilla - carbonated drink flavored with an extract from sarsaparilla root or with birch oil and sassafras |