1. Frothy and delicious soda made from the roots of some tree.

2. What minors tell adults they are drinking when they're hittin' the hard stuff, especially at family reunions.
1. I just drank a root beer, and it was great.

2. My Uncle: What are you kids drinkin' over there?
Me: Root beer. Its good stuff.
My Uncle: Yeah, whatever the hell you kids are calling it these days... I think I'm gonna go get a "root beer" myself.
by Al February 9, 2004
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The best damn soda in the world!
Henry Weinhard's by favorite bottled root beer, A&W's my favorite canned root beer.
by Disillusioned Hippie September 18, 2005
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Previously used in the pharmaceutical industry (much like Dr. Pepper), this delicious nectar now comes in nearly 300 flavors, and is microbrewed with nearly as much vigor as its alcholic cousin, pure beer. Root beer is so named due to it's ingredients, including berries, spices, and actual roots and stems from various plants.
IBC is possibly the finest, mass-produced root beer on the planet.
by Bill Grove December 9, 2003
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The greatest of all american soft drinks, ageless, flavourful and full of moxie.
Root Beer is the only drink you can mix with Fleet Phospo saline laxative that will not make you gag.
by Henry Cline September 12, 2003
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the most wonderful beverage ever invented. no IBC here. pass me the Sprecher's.
Me: is that IBC root beer?
You: why, yes, it is.
Me: can i see?
You: sure.
*throws it away*
Me: drink this.
*hands your sprecher's root beer*
by hint of tears July 18, 2004
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A really good soda made from roots of trees.
He had a coke, I had a root beer.
by Anonymous August 10, 2003
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The best soft drink on Earth - my vote is for Barq's root beer. The the 50's and 60's it was A&W for me, but it hasn't been the same since the 70's.
by Curt July 20, 2004
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