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Neat

Neat means a spirit poured straight from the bottle into a glass at room temperature, with no ice and no mixer.

In practice

Order whiskey neat and you get it as it is, often in a rocks glass or a tulip-shaped tasting glass. It's different from "up", which means chilled with ice and then strained, and from "on the rocks", which means served over ice.

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Neat, in short

What does neat mean?

Neat means a spirit poured straight from the bottle into a glass at room temperature, with no ice and no mixer.