So is "the alcohol", if we're really being picky. But pickiness and inebriation don't mix well.
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mid 16th century: French (earlier form of alcool ), or from medieval Latin, from Arabic al-kuḥl ‘the kohl.’ In early use the term denoted powders, specifically kohl, and especially those obtained by sublimation; later ‘a distilled or rectified spirit’ (mid 17th century).
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