Hi everybody and welcome back to Top Words. My name is Alicia and today we're going to talk about 10 words that you can use at a bar.

Let's go. To buy a round. The first expression is to buy a round. To buy a round means to buy a round of drinks essentially. A round of drinks means one drink for everyone in your group,

one drink for everyone in your party. By the way, the word party is used to mean group at a

bar or restaurant. The number of people in your party is the number of people in your group.

So, to buy a round means to buy a drink for everybody.

In a sentence, our boss began the party by buying everyone around. In a different sentence,

you're buying the next round. On the rocks. The next expression is on the rocks. On the

rocks is a way to order a drink.

When you say on the rocks, it means your drink on ice only.

So, rocks are the ice in your glass.

So you can imagine the ice, the pieces of ice in your glass, the ice cubes or an ice ball.

These are like rocks.

So saying, I'd like whiskey, for example, on the rocks means

just whiskey served over ice. That's what on the rocks mean. So in a sentence, I'd like a gin on the rocks.

Straight up. The next expression is straight up. So a straight up drink is different from an on the rocks drink.

A straight up drink is chilled with ice, but it's strained. So there's no ice in the drink,

but it has been chilled with ice. So a straight up drink, there's nothing else in the glass,

but it is a chilled drink. In a sentence, I'd like a martini straight up.

Some people use the word straight or straight up, but they mean neat, which is the next

word we're going to talk about. So keep in mind, straight or straight up means chilled.

That's one of the key points here. So yeah, a martini straight up is a chilled martini.

Neat.

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