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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having a smaller proportion of alcohol than proof spirit.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a greater specific gravity than 0.91984: applied to alcoholic liquors.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Containing less alcohol than proof spirit. See Proof spirit, under spirit.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Having a lower alcohol content than proof spirit.

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under- +‎ proof

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