sherbet

noun4

1. •
   A dessert of frozen fruit juice with a dairy product such as milk added; a sorbet with dairy ingredients.

   • Fay Li clicks her fingers, and the dessert trolley is already on its way. “Now, the lemon-and-melon sherbet, very low in calories, it cleanses the palate, ideal before coffee. [...]” — 2004
2. •
   An effervescent powder made of bicarbonate of soda, sugar and flavourings, intended to be eaten alone or mixed with water to make a drink.
3. •
   A traditional West and South Asian sweet drink prepared from fruits or flower petals.

   • There were times we regretted The summer palaces on slopes, the terraces, And the silken girls bringing sherbet. — 1927
4. •
   (UK, slang) An alcoholic drink, especially beer.

   • All the dealers would steam into his cabin for a few sherbets after work, and to listen to his bollocks. — 2014