Skip to main content

Not-Beer 

(n) Anything that is discernably not beer. Derived from the Beer/Not-Beer dichotomy, which dictates that anything and everything in existence (and non-existence) can be placed in one of the two aforementioned categories.

Note: Recently, "Not-Beer" has been colloquialized (adj), meaning: stupid, lame, unworthy of praise, worthy of scorn, etc. Due to the recent colloquialization of "Not-Beer," its positive form, "Beer," has only naturally been adopted as an antonym (adj), meaning: cool, awesome, unworthy of derision, worthy of commendation, etc.
Leinenkugel's Honey Weiss: Beer.
Popov: Not-Beer.
Spaten Optimator: Beer.
Smirnoff Ice: Not-Beer.
Stone Brewing Sublimely Self-Righteous Ale: Beer.
Sand: Not-Beer.

A Fresh Keg of Bell's Two-Hearted Ale: Beer.
Billy's new tat of a biker-demon wielding swords of blue flame: Beer.
Freddy's new tat of his grandmother's big toe: Not-Beer.
Freddy attempting to kegstand that Bell's Two-Hearted Ale and failing miserably: Not-Beer.

Getting Along: Beer.
Bureaucracy: Not-Beer.
Not-Beer by Face Of Bear August 19, 2010
Not-Beer mug front
Get the Not-Beer mug.
See more merch

liquor and not beer unless you're a queer.

Stop drinking that beer you queer. Liquor and not beer unless you're a queer.

It's Not All Beer And Skittles 

Not everything goes as well as it should.
Person 1: "Oh man! I just failed my midterms..."
Person 2: "Well, it's not all beer and skittles"

not all beer and skittles 

not entirely pleasant(skittles refers to a bowling type game played in taverns during the 1800s)
Most immigrants learn that life is not all beer and skittles when they arrive in the US.

not in a million beers

referring to something you would not participate in even if you were impossibly drunk.
"Hey would you bang Sheila?"

"Not in a million beers!"
The word 'flag' as pronounced by people with thick Belfast accents. The term is a perfect encapsulation of the disproportionate and overblown reaction to the removal of the Union Jack (as in 'de fleg') from above City Hall in Belfast. Where previously it had flown for 365 days per year, it is now flown on 17 designated days of the year - in line with many other British cities.

The event caused a portion of the Protestant community ('fleggers') to make international pricks of themselves as they proceeded to wreck the fucking place, claiming it was another erosion of a 'British' identity they perceive to have been under attack since the horrifying spectre of equality reared its head in Northern Ireland.

The word 'fleg' - and indeed 'fleggers' - fittingly describes a section of humanity unconcerned with knowledge, reality or the vagaries of the English language. Like America's tea-baggers they are ruled by instinct, fear and paranoia with a side dish of rampant bigotry and startling ignorance of the world around them.
"Wat de fuck like! The taigs got de fleg took down! Let's wreck de fuckin place! No surrender!"

"De fleg has been took down! Before ye know it there'll be a united Ireland! Attack Short Strand! God Save The Queen!"
Fleg by OnionFleg August 9, 2013
Word of the Day on July 18, 2026
To take something small, that doesn't quite qualify as a theft. Probably from the Danish "skæv" or the Dutch "scheef", both of which are pronounced similarly, meaning "askew, or not quite right'. To change an item's ownership without permission, but only something small and of little worth.
"I skeefed an apple off the neighbor's tree." "I skeefed some chips outta your bag when you looked away." "Don't skeef my chair when I go to the bathroom."
Skeef by kachinaflonk July 16, 2026
Word of the Day on July 17, 2026