"butter bomb" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: butter bombs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} butter bomb (plural butter bombs)
  1. (informal) A wine in which diacetyl is deliberately promoted in order to impart a buttery flavour. Tags: informal
    Sense id: en-butter_bomb-en-noun-hF8oydC1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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