'hard drink' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
For example, "The party was filled with hard drink and loud music". This phrase usually refers to alcoholic beverages (like whiskey, gin, etc.) that are high in alcohol content.
The 24-year-old West Point graduate from Vermont had fought well during the Peninsula Campaign, but had earned a reputation for enjoying both women and hard drink.
Drained by emotions he cannot, dare not, show while conducting huge European business mergers, he took a long, hard drink of his Coca-Cola.
As the night passes, industrial amounts of hard drink are downed, everybody rolls up their sleeves, sharpens their knives and deals with the past – in all its golden light and conflicting memories.
Moments earlier, he had completed the distance, thrown his hands in the air in triumph and taken a long, hard drink from a water pouch he had velcroed to the wall above his head.
I remember one night after [Tippett's] The Mask of Time at the Royal Albert Hall, Colin was backstage, and had started to change out of his formal clothes, and was sitting exhausted at a table with a hard drink.
The only help you'll get is a few hard drinks and morning.
This, and the inherent richness of the food, makes me wonder whether I might prefer to come back at night, and make some inroads into the amazing-sounding list of "hard" drinks.
When Clarence orders a mulled wine heavy on the cinnamon and light on the cloves, he is told: "Look mister, we serve hard drinks in here for men who want to get drunk fast".
They used the following 5 parameters: tumor localization (anterior and posterior to second premolars), tumor size (T1-4), Chest X-ray (with or without pathologic findings), multi morbidity (No or Yes), and alcohol consumption (No, <100g/day, >100g/day, hard drinks).
These were the first two hard drinks I had since I gave birth in August, and quite honestly, it didn't matter what film was playing, I was blissfully numb within minutes of trying them.
