Abbreviation for 'alcohol by volume'; the percentage of alcohol content in a beverage.
An alphabetic abbreviation created in the 20th century as a standard measurement for alcohol content in drinks, used on labels and in brewing.
ABV is fascinating because it's an abbreviation that became its own word—people say 'this beer has a high ABV' without consciously thinking about what the letters stand for, showing how shortcuts become vocabulary.
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