The Clue
Fountain choice (4 letter answer)
The Answer
COLA
Tags
Notes
The answer COLA is seen frequently, appearing about once every 100 puzzles.
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Beverage
Cherry ___
Coca-___
Pepsi, for one
Pepsi-___
RC, for one
Aerated beverage
Beverage ingredient
Brown beverage
Bubbly drink
Caffeine source
Carbonated beverage
Carbonated drink
Fizzy drink
Fountain beverage
Fountain drink
Fountain quaff
Mixer option
Nut beverage
Pepsi or RC
Popular drink
Popular pop
Popular quaff
R.C., e.g.
RC, e.g.
RC or Jolt
Slurpee flavor
Soft drink
Caffein-rich nut
Drink with fast food
Fast-food companion
Float's base, maybe
Snack-bar drink
Soda fountain option
Certain pay raise, for short
Common part of a Happy Meal
It may be decaffeinated
Two-liter bottle contents
Pepsi, but not 7-Up
Definition
COLA as a noun:
1. (Cola, genus Cola) = large genus of African trees bearing kola nuts
2. (cola, dope) = carbonated drink flavored with extract from Kola nuts (`dope' is a southernism in the United States)
COLON as a noun:
1. the part of the large intestine between the cecum and the rectum; it extracts moisture from food residues before they are excreted
2. (colon, El Salvadoran colon) = the basic unit of money in El Salvador; equal to 100 centavos
3. (colon, Costa Rican colon) = the basic unit of money in Costa Rica; equal to 100 centimos
4. (Colon, Aspinwall) = a port city at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal
5. a punctuation mark (:) used after a word introducing a series or an example or an explanation (or after the salutation of a business letter)