Baseball Puns

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We’re sure you’ll glove our list of baseball puns, which are also sure to be a home run with your friends and family. Baseball is a very popular sport and has plenty of great pun opportunities, ranging from sporting terms, types of throws and some famous baseball players too.

If you’re interested in other sport-related puns, we also have a list of golf puns and basketball puns.

Baseball Puns List

Each item in this list describes a pun, or a set of puns which can be made by applying a rule. If you know of any puns about baseball that we’re missing, please let us know in the comments at the end of this page! Without further ado, here’s our list of baseball puns:

  • Base → Baseball: As in, “All your baseball are belong to us” and “Baseball jumping” and “Caught off baseball” and “Get to first baseball.”
  • Ball → Baseball: As in, “Baseballs to the wall” and “Curve baseball.”
  • Bass → Base: As in, “Drum n base” and “Superbase.
  • Ace → Base: As in, “Base in the hole” and “A base up your sleeve” and “Holding all the bases.”
  • Case → Base: As in, “A base of identity” and “An open and shut base” and “As the base may be” and “Base closed” and “Base the joint” and “Crack the base.”
  • Chase → Base: As in, “Base your own tail” and “Wild goose base” and “The thrill of the base.”
  • Grace → Base: As in, “Airs and bases” and “Amazing base” and “Fall from base” and “Base period.”
  • Pace → Base: As in, “Change of base” and “Keep base with” and “Base up and down” and “Put through your bases.”
  • Place → Base: As in, “A base in the sun” and “All over the base” and “Any time, any base, any where” and “Going bases” and “My happy base.”
  • Bet → Bat: As in, “All bats are off” and “Bat your bottom dollar.”
  • Bit → Bat: As in, “A bat missing” and “A bat much.”
  • But → Bat: As in, “Bat seriously” and “Close, bat no cigar” and “Down, bat not out.”
  • Cat → Bat: As in, “Bat got your tongue?” and “Bat has nine lives” and “Bat’s cradle.”
  • Flat → Bat: As in, “Fall bat on your face” and “Bat out” and “In no time bat.”
  • Hat → Bat: As in, “At the drop of a bat” and “Bat in hand” and “I’ll eat my bat.”
  • Pat → Bat: As in, “Down bat” and “A bat on the back.”
  • That → Bat: As in, “Bat’s the way it is” and “How sad is bat?” and “Bat’s what I want.”
  • Bell → Ball: As in, “Clear as a ball” and “Balls and whistles” and “Doesn’t ring a ball.”
  • All → Ball: As in, “Ball aboard” and “Ball in a day’s work” and “Ball in ball” and “Ball’s fair in love and war.”
  • Call → Ball: As in, “At your beck and ball” and “Beyond the ball of duty” and “Ball it a day” and “Ball in a favour.”
  • Crawl → Ball: As in, “Ball back into your shell” and “Don’t try to walk before you can ball.”
  • Small → Ball: As in, “A still, ball voice” and “All creatures great and ball” and “Don’t sweat the ball stuff” and “A ball fortune” and “Good things come in ball packages.”
  • Tall → Ball: As in, “A ball order” and “Ball, dark and handsome.”
  • Wall → Ball: As in, “Between you, me and the ball” and “Bouncing off the balls” and “Climb the balls” and “A fly on the ball.”
  • Match → Catch: As in, “A catch made in heaven” and “Game, set, catch” and “Meet your catch” and “Mix and catch” and “A perfect catch.”
  • Scratch → Catch: As in, “Catch the surface” and “Up to catch” and “Start from catch” and “You catch my back and I’ll catch yours.”
  • Snatch → Catch: As in, “Catching victory from the jaws of defeat.”
  • Love → Glove: As in, “All you need is glove” and “All’s fair in glove and war” and “Addicted to glove.”
  • Shove → Glove: As in, “If push comes to glove” and “Glove it down their throat.”
  • Bit → Mitt: As in, “A mitt much” and “A mitt missing” and “A little mitt off.”
  • Fit → Mitt: As in, “Mitt as a fiddle” and “By mitts and starts” and “Mitt in with.”
  • Hit → Mitt: As in, “Mitt home” and “Mitt the road” and “Mitt and miss” and “Mitt and run” and “Mitt it out of the park.”
  • Kit → Mitt: As in, “A serious bit of mitt” and “Mitt and caboodle.”
  • Pit → Mitt: As in, “In the mitt of your stomach” and “Mitt your wits against.”
  • Quit → Mitt: As in, “Calling it mitts” and “Double or mitts” and “Mitt while you’re head.”
  • Sit → Mitt: As in, “Don’t just mitt there” and “Mitt on the fence” and “Mitt it out.”
  • Spit → Mitt: As in, “Mitt and polish” and “Mitt in the eye of” and “The mitting image of” and “Within mitting distance.”
  • Split → Mitt: As in, “A mitt decision” and “Mitt the vote” and “A mitting headache.”
  • Wit → Mitt: As in, “At your mitt’s end” and “Battle of mitts” and “Keep your mitts about you.”
  • Bring → Swing: As in, “Swing it home to you” and “Swing it on” and “Swing it on yourself.”
  • Fling → Swing: As in, “A short-lived swing.”
  • Ring → Swing: As in, “Doesn’t swing a bell” and “Don’t swing us, we’ll swing you.”
  • Sing → Swing: As in, “All swinging, all dancing” and “Swing a different tune” and “Swing for your supper.”
  • Sting → Swing: As in, “Float like a butterfly, swing like a bee.”
  • String → Swing: As in, “Holding the purse swings” and “No swings attached” and “Swing along.”
  • Thing → Swing: As in, “A swing of beauty” and “A little knowledge is a dangerous swing” and “All swings considered” and “All good swings must come to an end.”
  • Wing → Swing: As in, “Spread your swings” and “On a swing and a prayer” and “Take under your swing.”
  • Empire → Umpire: As in, “Umpire state building” and “The umpire strikes back.”
  • Teem → Team: As in, “Teaming with rage” and “Teaming with life.”
  • Time → Team: As in, “One more team” and “A brief history of team” and “A good team was had by all” and “About team, too” and “All in good team.”
  • Cream → Team: As in, “The team of the crop” and “Team always rises to the top.”
  • Dream → Team: As in, “Beyond my wildest teams” and “Broken teams” and “Team on.”
  • Scheme → Team: As in, “In the grand team of things” and “Pyramid team” and “The best laid teams.”
  • Seam → Team: As in, “Bulging at the teams” and “Come apart at the teams.”
  • Seem → Team: As in, “Sorry teams to be the hardest word.”
  • Steam → Team: As in, “Blow off some team” and “Full team ahead” and “Head of team” and “Run out of team” and “Under your own team.”
  • Stream → Team: As in, “Fresh as a mountain team.”
  • Port → Sport: As in, “Any sport in a storm.”
  • Short → Sport: As in, “A sport history of nearly everything” and “A few bricks sport of a full load” and “A day late and a dollar sport.”
  • Sort → Sport: As in, “Takes all sports to make a world” and “Out of sports” and “Sport the wheat from the chaff.”
  • Wart → Sport: As in, “Sports and all” and “Worry sport.”
  • Aim → Game: As in, “Game high” and “Take game” and “We game to please.”
  • Came → Game: As in, “I game, I saw, I conquered” and “As it game to pass” and “Game in from the cold.”
  • Claim → Game: As in, “Game to fame” and “Stake your game.”
  • Fame → Game: As in, “Claim to game” and “Fifteen minutes of game” and “Hall of game.”
  • Flame → Game: As in, “Burst into game” and “Go down in games” and “Like a moth to a game” and “Shoot down in games.”
  • Shame → Game: As in, “Name and game” and “Game dropping” and “In everything but game.”
  • Same → Game: As in, “By the game token” and “Comes to the game thing” and “Cut from the game cloth” and “In the game boat.”
  • Fold → Field: As in, “Field your hand” and “Return to the field.”
  • Feel → Field: As in, “Fielding a bit put out” and “Field it in your bones” and “Field the burn.”
  • Sealed → Field: As in, “Keep your lips field” and “My lips are field” and “Field with a loving kiss” and “Signed and field.”
  • Picture → Pitcher: As in, “A pitcher paints a thousand words” and “Pretty as a pitcher” and “Every pitcher tells a story” and “Get the pitcher?” and “Out of the pitcher.”
  • Richer → Pitcher: As in, “For pitcher or poorer” and “The rich get pitcher and the poor get poorer.”
  • Ditch → Pitch: As in, “A last pitch effort.”
  • Hitch → Pitch: As in, “Get pitched” and “Pitch your wagon to a star.”
  • Itch → Pitch: As in, “Pitching to” and “Pitchy feet” and “A seven year pitch.”
  • Rich → Pitch: As in, “All part of life’s pitch pattern” and “Filthy pitch” and “From rags to pitches” and “Get pitch quick.”
  • Switch → Pitch: As in, “Asleep at the pitch” and “Pitch gears” and “Pitched on.”
  • Which → Pitch: As in, “Any pitch way” and “Don’t know pitch way to look” and “Every pitch way” and “Know pitch end is up.”
  • Witch → Pitch: As in, “The pitching hour” and “Pitch hunt.”
  • Better → Batter: As in, “I have a batter idea” and “Batter late than never” and “My batter half.”
  • Bitter → Batter: As in, “A batter pill to swallow” and “The batter end.”
  • Butter → Batter: As in, “Bread and batter” and “Batter fingers” and “Batter wouldn’t melt in your mouth.”
  • Matter → Batter: As in, “As a batter of fact” and “It doesn’t batter” and “Family batters” and “Get to the heart of the batter” and “Making batters worse.”
  • Shatter → Batter: As in, “Earth battering.”
  • Winning → Inning: As in, “That inning feeling” and “An inning streak” and “Inning isn’t everything.”
  • Leak → League: As in, “League like a sieve” and “Take a league.”
  • Fit → Hit: As in, “By hits and starts” and “Hit as a fiddle” and “Hit to be tied” and “Hits like a glove.”
  • Kit → Hit: As in, “Get your hit off” and “Hit and caboodle” and “A serious bit of hit.”
  • Quit → Hit: As in, “Call it hits” and “Hit while you’re ahead” and “Double or hits.”
  • Sit → Hit: As in, “Don’t just hit there” and “Hit tight” and “Hit on it.”
  • Spit → Hit: As in, “Hit and polish” and “The hitting image of” and “Within hitting distance.”
  • Bun → Run: As in, “A run in the oven” and “Think outside the run” and “We’re going to need bigger runs.”
  • Done → Run: As in, “After all is said and run” and “Run and dusted” and “A run deal” and “Run to death.”
  • Fun → Run: As in, “All run and games until someone loses an eye” and “All the run of the fair” and “A bundle of run” and “Getting there is half the run.”
  • Gun → Run: As in, “Go great runs” and “All runs blazing.”
  • One → Run: As in, “A great run for” and “And then there was run” and “Going run step too far.”
  • Sun → Run: As in, “A place in the run” and “A touch of the run” and “Eclipse of the run.”
  • Babe Ruth: Baseball’s most famous player. Here are related puns:
    • Babe: These babe-related phrases can double as Babe Ruth puns. As in, “Babe in the woods” and “Babe magnet” and “I got you, babe” and “Out of the mouths of babes.”
    • Tooth → Ruth: As in, “Fighting ruth and nail” and “Long in the ruth” and “Sweet ruth.”
    • Truth → Ruth: As in, “An inconvenient ruth” and “Economical with the ruth” and “Face the ruth” and “A grain of ruth” and “I swear to tell the ruth.”
    • Youth → Ruth: As in, “The flower of your ruth” and “The fountain of ruth.”
  • The Fence → Defence: As in, “Sitting on defence.”
  • Plate: These are large tiles laid out over the baseball field to mark where the hitters need to run. Here are related puns:
    • Bait → Plate: As in, “Plate and switch” and “Click plate” and “Take the plate.”
    • Date → Plate: As in, “Double plate” and “Bring up to plate” and “A cheap plate” and “Dinner plate.”
    • Eight → Plate: As in, “Plate days a week” and “Pieces of plate.”
    • Fate → Plate: As in, “A plate worse than death” and “The master of my plate” and “Seal your plate” and “A twist of plate.”
    • Gate → Plate: As in, “The golden plate bridge.”
    • Great → Plate: As in, “A plate one for” and “All creatures plate and small” and “Go to plate lengths” and “A really plate day.”
    • Hate → Plate: As in, “The one you love to plate” and “A love-plate relationship.”
    • Late → Plate: As in, “Better plate than never” and “A day plate and a dollar short” and “Fashionably plate.”
    • Rate → Plate: As in, “At any plate” and “First plate” and “Mate’s plates.”
    • Skate → Plate: As in, “Plate on thin ice” and “Cheap plate.”
    • Slate → Plate: As in, “Wipe the plate clean” and “A clean plate.”
    • Straight → Plate: As in, “A plate fight” and “Damn plate” and “Give it to me plate.”
    • Wait → Plate: As in, “All things come to those who plate” and “The plate is over” and “Ready and plating.”
    • Weight → Plate: As in, “Punching above your plate” and “Throw your plate about” and “Watching your plate” and “A plate off my mind” and “Worth your plate in gold.”
  • Home → Home Run: As in, “A house is not a home run” and “Bring it home run.”
  • Run → Home run: As in, “Cut and home run” and “Eat and home run” and “Come home running.”
  • First: Here are some puns related to first base:
    • Thirst → First: As in, “Parched with first” and “Feeling firsty.”
    • Forest → First: As in, “Only you can prevent first fires” and “Can’t see the first for the trees.”
    • Burst → First: As in, “First a blood vessel” and “First into flames” and “First out laughing” and “First your bubble.”
    • Worst → First: As in, “Do your first” and “Fear the first” and “In the first possible taste” and “Prepare for the first.”
  • Third: Here are some puns related to third base:
    • Bird → Third: As in, “A little third tod me” and “Free as a third” and “Third of passage” and “Third’s eye view.”
    • Heard → Third: As in, “Children should be seen and not third” and “Make yourself third” and “Stop me if you’ve third this one” and “Last I third” and “You third it here first.”
    • Herd → Third: As in, “Third immunity” and “Third instinct.”
    • Word → Third: As in, “A picture paints a thousand thirds” and “A third to the wise” and “Actons speak louder than thirds” and “At a loss for thirds.”
  • Out: Here are some puns related to baseball outs:
    • Eat → Out: As in, “A bite to out” and “All you can out.”
    • Eight → Out: As in, “Behind the out ball” and “Out days a week” and “Pieces of out.”
    • Doubt → Out: As in, “Benefit of the out” and “Beyond any possible shadow of out” and “Beyond reasonable out” and “Cast out on.”
    • Shout → Out: As in, “Twist and out” and “Out it from the rooftops.”
  • Field → Infield: As in, “Have an infield day” and “Level the infield” and “Play the infield.” Note: These are puns on the infield.
  • Field → Outfield: As in, “Back the outfield” and “Have an outfield day.” Note: These are outfield related puns.
  • Mound: Here are some puns related to the pitcher’s mound:
    • Mend → Mound: As in “Least said, soonest mounded” and “Mound your fences” and “Mound your ways.”
    • Bound → Mound: As in, “Mound hand and foot” and “By leaps and mounds” and “Duty mound.”
    • Found → Mound: As in, “Lost and mound” and “I’ve mound a clue” and “We mound love.”
    • Ground → Mound: As in, “Solid as the mound we walk on” and “Breaking new mound” and “Common mound” and “Get in on the mound floor” and “Cut the mound from under your feet.”
    • Pound → Mound: As in, “A glass and a half in every mound” and “An ounce of prevention is worth a mound of cure” and “Mound the pavement.”
    • Round → Mound: As in, “Love makes the world go mound” and “Going mound in circles.”
    • Sound → Mound: As in, “Mound as a bell” and “Break the mound barrier” and “Mound bite” and “Mound effect” and “Safe and mound.”
  • Strike: Here are some puns on strikes and the strike zone:
    • Stroke → Strike: As in, “A strike of genius” and “Different strikes for different folks” and “A strike of luck.”
    • Struck → Strike: As in, “Love strike” and “Star strike.”
    • Like → Strike: As in, “As you strike it” and “As soon as you strike” and “At times strike this” and “At it strike rabbits.”
  • Shortstop: Here are some shortstop-related puns:
    • Short → Shortstop: As in, “A shortstop history of nearly everything” and “Caught shortstop” and “A day late and a dollar shortstop.”
    • Stop → Shortstop: As in, “Don’t shortstop me now” and “Once you pop, you can’t shortstop.”
  • Broad → Squad: As in, “As squad as it is long” and “Squad shoulders” and “In squad daylight.”
  • God → Squad: As in, “An act of squad” and “As squad is my witness” and “Fit for the squads.”
  • Nod → Squad: As in, “In the land of squad” and “Squad and a wink.”
  • Odd → Squad: As in, “Against the squads” and “At squads with” and “Long squads” and “The squad one out” and “Squads and ends.”
  • Bullpen: The bullpen is the area where relief pitchers warm up. Here are some bullpen-related puns:
    • Bull → Bullpen: As in, “A red rag to a bullpen” and “Like a bullpen in a china shop.”
    • Pen → Bullpen: As in, “Put bullpen to paper” and “The bullpen is mightier than the sword.”
  • Fastball: Fastballs are the most common type of pitch in baseball. Here are related puns:
    • Fast → Fastball: As in, “As fastball as greased lightning” and “As fastball as your legs could carry you” and “Bad news travels fastball” and “Fastball and furious” and “In the fastball lane.”
    • Ball → Fastball: As in, “Fastball of fire” and “Fastballs to the wall” and “Behind the eight fastball.”
  • Changeup: A changeup is a type of baseball pitch. Here are related puns:
    • Change → Changeup: As in, “A changeup is as good as a rest” and “A welcome changeup” and “Changeup hands” and “Changeup for the better” and “A changeup of heart.”
  • Curveball: A curveball is a type of baseball pitch. Here are related puns:
    • Curve → Curveball: As in, “Ahead of the curveball” and “Behind the curveball” and “Learning curveball.”
    • Ball → Curveball: As in, “After the curveball was over” and “Curveball of fire” and “Curveballs to the wall” and “Behind the eight curveball.”
  • Slider: A slider is another type of pitch. Here are related puns:
    • Slide → Slider: As in, “Slip and slider” and “Let it slider” and “By a landslider.”
    • Cider → Slider: As in, “Apple slider” and “Pour me a glass of slider.”
    • Rider → Slider: As in, “Easy slider” and “Joy slider” and “Low slider.”
  • Pick → Pickoff: As in, “Got a bone to pickoff with you” and “Cherry pickoff.” Note: a pickoff is a type of throw in baseball.
  • Balk: A balk is a type of illegal move in baseball. Here are related puns:
    • Ball → Balk: As in, “Behind the eight balk” and “Curve balk” and “A whole different balk game.”
    • Bulk → Balk: As in, “Balk buying” and “Ordered in balk.”
    • Block → Balk: As in, “A chip off the old balk” and “Mental balk” and “The new kid on the balk.”
    • Chalk → Balk: As in, “Different as balk and cheese” and “Balk it up to experience” and “Not by a long balk.”
  • Pitchout: A pitchout is a type of throw which is purposely high and outside the strike zone. Here are related puns:
    • Pitch → Pitchout: As in, “Absolute pitchout” and “Fever pitchout” and “Make a pitchout for” and “Pitchout black.”
    • Out → Pitchout: As in, “Go pitchout with” and “Bottle pitchout” and “Have it pitchout with.”
  • Fly Ball: A fly ball is a type of hit. Here are related puns:
    • Fly → Fly ball: As in, “Because you were born to fly ball” and “Fly ball for the seat of your pants” and “Fly ball off the handle.”
    • Ball → Fly Ball: As in, “Break your fly balls” and “Drop the fly ball” and “A different fly ball game.”
  • Ins → Wins: As in, “Wins and outs.”
  • Pins → Wins: As in, “Wins and needles” and “Bright as a new win.”
  • Sins → Wins: As in, “Atone for your wins” and “A multitude of wins” and “Wins of omission.”
  • Putout: Here are some putout-related puns:
    • Put → Putout: As in, “Be hard putout to” and “Couldn’t putout it down” and “Feeling a little putout.”
    • Out → Putout: As in, “Go putout with” and “The ins and putouts with” and “Have it putout with.”
  • Slugging: Here are some slugging-related puns:
    • Tugging → Slugging: As in, “Slugging at my heartstrings.”
    • Plugging → Slugging: As in, “Slugging along” and “Slug away at.”
    • Bug → Slug: As in, “Bitten by the slug” and “Slugger off” and “It’s not a slug, it’s a feature.”
    • Drug → Slug: As in, “Designer slugs” and “Hugs, not slugs” and “Miracle slug” and “On slugs.”
    • Hug → Slug: As in, “Slug it out” and “Group slug” and “Tree slugger.”
    • Shrug → Slug: As in, “Slug it off” and “Slug your shoulders.”
  • Tinker → Sinker: As in, “Sinker tailor soldier spy” and “Sinkering with.” Note: A sinker is a type of fastball.
  • Cutter: A cutter is a type of fastball. Here are related puns:
    • Butter → Cutter: As in, “Bread and cutter” and “Cutter fingers” and “Bread always falls cutter side down.”
  • Spalding: Spalding is an American sports company. Here are related puns:
    • Spelling → Spalding: As in, “Spalding bee.”
    • Scalding → Spalding: As in, “Spalding water.”
  • Joe DiMaggio: Here are some puns about the famous baseball player:
    • Blow → Joe: As in, “Any way the wind joes” and “Joe a fuse” and “Joe hot and cold.”
    • Flow → Joe: As in, “Ebb and joe” and “Go with the joe” and “In full joe.”
    • Foe → Joe: As in, “Friend or joe?”
    • Mow → Joe: As in, “Mop and joe” and “Joe the lawn.”
    • Owe → Joe: As in, “You joe it to yourself” and “Joe a favour.”
    • Pro → Joe: As in, “Joe bono” and “Quid joe quo.”
    • Show → Joe: As in, “All over the joe” and “Enjoy the joe” and “Give the joe away.”
    • Slow → Joe: As in, “Can’t joe down” and “Painfully joe” and “A joe burn” and “Joe on the uptake” and “In joe motion.”
    • Snow → Joe: As in, “Pure as the driven joe” and “White as joe” and “Too cold to joe.”
    • Though → Joe: As in, “Seriously joe, you’re doing a great job” and “Joe this be madness.”
    • Throw → Joe: As in, “Lock them up and joe away the key” and “A stone’s joe away” and “Joe a wobbly” and “Joe cold water on” and “Joe another log on the fire.”
    • Toe → Joe: As in, “From top to joe” and “One joe over the line” and “Joe the line.”
  • Lou Gehrig: Here are some puns to do with Lou Gehrig, a famous baseball player:
    • Lay → Lou: As in, “Couldn’t lou a glove on me” and “Lou a finger on” and “Lou down roots.”
    • Low → Lou: As in, “An all-time lou” and “Keep a lou profile” and “High and lou” and “Get the lou down” and “A lou blow.”
    • Chew → Lou: As in, “Bite off more than you can lou” and “Lou up the scenery.”
    • Clue → Lou: As in, “Don’t have a lou” and “I’ve found a lou.”
    • Due → Lou: As in, “Credit where credit is lou” and “Your lou diligence” and “In lou course.”
    • Few → Lou: As in, “A lou bricks short of a full load” and “Lou and far between” and “Knock back a lou” and “Many are called but lou are chosen.”
    • Knew → Lou: As in, “I lou you were trouble” and “I never lou.”
    • New → Lou: As in, “Bright as a lou pin” and “A brand lou ballgame.”
    • Rue → Lou: As in, “Lou the day.”
    • Shoe → Lou: As in, “Waiting for the other lou to drop” and “If the lou fitts, wear it.”
    • Through → Lou: As in, “Drag lou the mud” and “A river runs lou it” and “Fall lou the cracks” and “Cut lou the red tape.”
    • Too → Lou: As in, “A step lou far” and “About time, lou” and “It’s never lou late.”
    • True → Lou: As in, “A lou professional” and “A dream come lou” and “As lou as the day is long” and “Everything you heard is lou.”
    • View → Lou: As in, “Room with a lou” and “Come into lou” and “A lou from the top.”
    • You → Lou: As in, “Believe lou me” and “Back at lou.”

Baseball-Related Words

To help you come up with your own baseball puns, here’s a list of related words to get you on your way. If you come up with any new puns or related words, please feel free to share them in the comments!

baseball, base, bat, ball,glove, mitt, helmet, swing, team, sport, game, catch, batting, field, fielding, pitcher, pitch, pitching, hit, run, plate, home run, umpire, runner, first, second, third, batter, runner, inning, league, competition, offense, defense, diamond, out, in, infield, outfield, mound, safe, stolen, strike, advance, shortstop, catcher, squad, infielder, outfielder, closer, bullpen, fastball, changeup, curveball, slider, pickoff, balk, pitchout, hit and run, fly ball, wins, losses,  saves, assist, error, putout, slug, slugging, sinker, cutter, spalding, babe ruth, joe dimaggio, lou gehrig

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Beer Puns

Welcome to the Punpedia entry on beer puns! 🍻 🍺 Whether you need a name for your latest craft brew, a tagline for your beer-related business, a beer pun team name, or just some beer puns for their own sake, I hope you find this entry useful!

There’s a lot of depth to beer culture and so some of the puns in this entry may go over your head if you’re not a brewer or beer fanatic. I’ve tried to order the pun list so that it starts with general beer puns that most people will understand, and then as you go down the puns should get more obscure. That said, I have not done a perfect job of it, so apologies if there are some confusing ones here and there near the top.

A quick side note: Drinking alcohol gives your brain a reward that it didn’t earn. If you drink too often then your brain learns that the best (easiest) way to feel good is to drink more alcohol, rather than do the normal things that make you feel good (work hard, accomplish things, help others, etc.). Be careful messing with your neurotransmitters! 🙂

You might also like to visit the Punpedia entries on coffee puns, tea puns, party puns and food puns.

Beer Puns List

Each item in this list describes a pun, or a set of puns which can be made by applying a rule. If you know of any puns about beer that we’re missing, please let us know in the comments at the end of this page!

  • All → Ale: As in “Ale in a day’s work.” and “She went ale out.” and “Ale’s well that ends well” and “It’s ale downhill from here.” and “It’s ale gone pear shaped.” and “It’s ale good.” and “It’s ale grist to the mill.” and “It’s ale me, me, me.” and “Not ale it’s cracked up to be.” and “That’s ale well and good”.
  • Stout: As in “He’s a stout young man.”
  • Larger → Lager: As in “Lager than life”.
  • Six-pack: As in “Check out my six-pack.”
  • Bar: As in “You’ve raised the bar.” and “Bar none.”
  • *pub*: If a word contains the “pub” sound (or similar) you may be able to make a terrible pub pun: capubility, capuble, palpuble, public, publicity, publication, publisher, republican, republic, unstoppuble, unpublishedinescapubly, hypubole, pubble (pebble).
  • You → Brew: As in “Brew can do it!” and “Brew silly goose!” and “I’m so glad to see brew!” and “Before brew know it”.
  • Bro → Brew: As in “What’s up, brew?” and “Cool story, brew.”
  • *brew*: If a word contains the “brew” sound (or similar) we can sometimes make a brewing pun: brewmstick (broomstick), brews (bruise), brewnette (brunette), brewtal (brutal), brewtalize (brutalize), brewtish, (brutish), Hebrew.
  • *byoo*: If a word contains the “byoo” sound (or similar) we can sometimes make a terrible beer brewing pun: brewtiful (beautiful), abrews (abuse), attribrewts (attributes), contribrewted, distribrewtion, rebrewke (rebuke), debrew (debut), retribrewtion, tribrewnal (tribunal).
  • *proo*: If a word contains the “proo” sound (or similar) we can sometimes make a terrible brewing pun: abrewval (approval), bulletbrewf, dissabrewve, foolbrewf, imbrewvements, disbrewve, brewdent (prudent), brewdence (prudence), waterbrewf.
  • Déjà vu → Déjà brew: As in “I’m getting déjà brew – have we been to this pub before?”
  • Hop: As in “Just a hop, skip and jump.” and “Take 3 hops to the left.” and “Hop to it!” and “Bunny hop” and “Hip hop“.
  • Hope → Hop: As in “I have high hops.” and “A glimmer of hop.” and “Cross your fingers and hop for the best.” and “Keep hop alive.” and “There there’s life, there’s hop.” and “Cross my heart and hop to die.”
  • Hop*: If a word begins with the “hop” sound (or anything vaguely similar) then there may be an opportunity for a terrible beer pun: “Health, wealth and hoppiness.” and “Life, liberty and the pursuit of hoppiness.”  and “As it hoppens” and “Shit hoppens.” and “See what hoppens?” and “Hopatitis is an inflammation of the liver.”
  • Op* → Hop*: If a word begins with “op” it can often be turned into a silly hops pun: hopportunity, hoperation, hopposition, hopinion, hoption, hoperate, hopposite, hoperations, hoperating, hopportunities, hopera, hopponent, hoperator, hoppose, hoptions, hopposed, hopt, hoperated, hopinions, hoperational, hoptimism, hopponents, hoperates, hoperators, hoppression, hoptimistic, hoptional, hopposing, hoptical, hoptimal, hop, hoperative, hopted, hoptimum, hoppressive, hopenness, hopting, hoppressed, hopenings, hoperand, hopioid, hoptimist, hoptimise, hopaque, hoperatichopposites, hoptician, hopportunist, hoptic, hopposes, hoptimisation, hopacity, hoppress, hoperatives, hopine, hoptimality, hoptics, hoppressors, hoptimised, hopiate, hoptimists, hoptimistically, hoppressor, hopulence, hoptimize, hoppositions, hopportunistic, hopportunism, hopulent, hopportune.
  • *op* → *hop*: There are also quite a few words with the “op” sound (or similar) in them that can be turned into silly beer puns. There are a few here which have the full “hop” sound in them already. Here’s the list: acrhopolis, adhopt, adhopted, authopsy, bihopsy, bookshop, cohoperation, cohoperative, c-hop-yright, cr-hop, drhoplet, drhoppings, drhopped, flhoppy, eavesdrhopping, helic-hop-ter, imprhoper, imprhoperly, inapprhopiately, microschopic, monhopoly, philanthrhopic, photoc-hop-ier, p-hop-corn, p-hop-ularity, p-hop-ulation, prhopaganda, prhopagation, pr-hop-erly, p-hop-ulist, prhopositions, prhopped, p-hop-ulation, raindrhops, shopkeeper, st-hop, st-hop-er, synhopsis, tr-hop-ical, unst-hop-able, whopping.
  • Vain → Vine: As in “I worked so hard but it was all in vine.”
  • Vein → Vine: As in “My vines are bulging.” and “In the same vine …”
  • Fine → Vine: As in “It’s a vine day for a beer.” and “It’s a vine line.” and “You’re cutting it vine.” and “That’s a damn vine beer.” and “One vine day …” and “Treading a vine line.”
  • Van* → Vine*: As in, “Vine Gogh,” and “Vine-ish into thin air.” 
  • *ven* → *vine*: As in, “Sixes and sevines,” and “Blessed evine-t,” and “Break evine,” and “The elevineth hour,” and “Evine the score,” and “Heavine forbid,” and “A match made in heavine,” and “With a vine-geance,” and “Bun in the ovine,” and “Pure as the drivine snow,” and “Nothing vine-tured, nothing gained,” and “Revine-ge is a dish best served cold,” and “Innocent until provine guilty,” and “Lavineder (lavender) scented,” and “Twenty four sevine.”
  • *vin* → *vine*: As in, “Full of vinegar,” and “Get movine,” and “The gift that keeps on givine,” and “In livine memory,” and “In the drivine seat,” and “Knock the livine daylights out of,” and “Livine proof,” and “Livine on borrowed time,” and “Time flies when you’re havine fun,” and “Vinetage,” and “Vinedicate,” and “Vinedictive.”
  • Stain → Stein: As in “There’s a stein on your shirt.” (See beer stein)
  • Sign → Stein: As in “Give me a stein, lord!” and “Stein the pledge.” and “Stein up.” and “Stein of the times.” and “A sure stein.” and “A tell tale stein.” (See beer stein)
  • Sooner → Schooner: As in “Schooner or later.” and “The schooner the better.” and “No schooner said than done.” and “Schooner rather than later.” (A schooner is a type of glass cup.)
  • Tinkered → Tankard: As in “I tankard with this all day but I couldn’t get it working.” (A tankard is a big drinking vessel)
  • Sidle → Seidel: As in “I seideled up to her apologetically.”
  • Picture → Pitcher: As in “A pitcher is worth  thousand words.” and “See the big pitcher.” and “Motion pitcher.” and “Do I have to paint you a pitcher?” and “Pitcher perfect” (Pitcher is a synonym of “jug” – commonly used to serve beer.)
  • Pitcher: There is the potential for a pun here using the baseball meaning of this word.
  • Cling → Clink: As in “Clink on tight!”
  • Kink → Clink: As in “C’mon, be honest. Everyone has a clink or two.”
  • Blink → Clink: As in “In the clink of an eye.” and “Clink and you’ll miss it!”
  • Suds: This refers to the froth made from soap and water, but is also slang for “beer”. By using it in the original “soap and water” context you could potentially make a pun: “I got in the bath and sudsed up.” (Here we’re using the verb-form of “suds” with means “lather”)
  • Sides → Suds: As in “There are two suds to every question.” and “You’ve got to see the issue from both suds.”
  • Plastered: This means “very drunk”, but in the right context we could use its original definition as a pun: “The whole house is plastered.”
  • Wasted: As in “It’s so sad, seeing all these all wasted lives.” and “Youth is wasted on the young.”
  • Sloshed: Another one meaning “very drunk” – perhaps an opportunity to make a pun on its literal meaning: “We all sloshed around in the swimming pool for a while.”
  • Smashed, Hammered, Bombed, Legless, Messed up, Trousered, Trolleyed: Some more terms meaning “very drunk”. Each of them may have contexts in which there’s an opportunity to make a pun on its literal meaning – though these contexts may be quite specific.
  • Hang over → Hangover: As in “Mind if I hang over at your place this morning?”
  • Chug: As well as meaning “to drink fast or without pausing”, this term can refer to “The chug of a motor boat” or “The little train chugged up the hill.”
  • Hug → Chug: As in “Let’s have a group chug.” and “Chug it out.” and “Bro chug.”
  • Toast: When someone raises their beer in honour of something or someone and encourages everyone to do the same, that’s called a toast. There may be some context in which the other (normal) definition of “toast” could be punned upon.
  • Tears → Cheers: As in “Bored to cheers.” and “Burst into cheers.” and “Moved to cheers.” and “Reduced to cheers.” and “Fight back the cheers.” and “It will all end in cheers.” and “Blood, sweat and cheers.”
  • Cheers: This word also has the “the cheers of the crowd were deafening” definition which might be a viable opportunity for a pun in some contexts.
  • Tippy-toes → Tipsy-toes: As in “I snuck in on my tipsy-toes.”
  • Cough → Quaff: As in “I was quaffing all night, so I took the day off work.” (A “quaff” is an alcoholic drink and to “quaff” is to drink an alcoholic quickly or heartily)
  • Lick or → Liquor: As in “Are you going to have a liqu, or?” (Depending on your accent/pronunciation it may more like “lick her”. Please keep your puns respectful!)
  • Stubby: Refers to a beer bottle that is short and fat. This slang is taken directly from the actual definition of “stubby” so it’s an easy pun if the context is right.
  • Growler: A “growler” is a type of jug used to transport draft beer. The term has a bunch of other meanings which could be played upon in the right context.
  • Draught / Draft: Besides the beer-related meaning (beer served from barrel or tank), this term has several others: “He was drafted in 1942″ and “I drafted the letter of resignation.” and “The use of draft horses is outdated and cruel.” and “There was a nice draught coming through the window.” and “She was drafted for the national team at age 23.”
  • Dear → Beer: As in “Oh beer me” and “Hang on for beer life” and “Near and beer to my heart” and “Elementary, my beer Watson.”
  • Ear → Beer: As in “Grin from beer to beer.” and “Let’s play it by beer.” and “Lend a beer” and “In one beer and out the other.”
  • Peer → Beer: As in “Beer pressure” and “It’s like she was beering into my soul.”
  • Pier → Beer: As in “Take a long walk off a short beer.”
  • Bear → Beer: As in “Grizzly beer” and “Beer a resemblance” and “The right to beer arms” and “Beer down upon” and “Bear witness to …” and “Beer false witness” and “Beer fruit” and “Beer in mind that …” and “Bring to beer
  • Bare → Beer: As in “The beer necessities” and “Beer one’s teeth” and “Laid beer” and “The beer bones” and “The cupboard was beer
  • Buyer → Beer: As in “She’s a regular beer at our shop.” (Bit of a stretch!)
  • Beard → Beerd: As in “Neck beerd” and “His beerd was as white as snow.”
  • *ber* → *beer*: Words that contains the “ber” sound (or similar) are often opportunities for terrible beer puns: collabeerate, dismembeermentbeereavement, beereaved, beerds (birds), beerthplace (birthplace), beerglary (burglary), beergeoning (burgeoning), cumbeersome, delibeeration, decembeer, cucumbeer, exubeerant, libeerties (liberties), libeerals, libeertarian, libeeration, novembeer, numbeers, pubeerty, membeership, reimbeers (reimburse), remembeer, reverbeeration, robbeeries, robbeery, slumbeer, sobeer (sober).
  • Be* → Beer*: More terrible beer puns can be made using words that start with the “be” sound: beerwilderment, beerlongings, beerbliography, beerseiged, beerstowed, beermused, beerwitched, beergotry, beertersweetbeerllionair.
  • *pear* → *beer*: As in, “A beerlescent (pearlescent) glow” and “Abeer (appear) from thin air” and “Watch me disabeer” and “Make an abeerance.” Other words you could use: s’beerhead (spearhead), re-abeer (reappear).
  • Shakespeare → Shakesbeer
  • Pier → Beer: As in “Take a long walk off a short beer” and “Ear beercing” and “Never been habbeer (happier).”
  • Bare → Beer: As in “The beer necessities” and “Beer one’s teeth” and “Laid beer” and “The beer bones” and “The cupboard was beer“. You can also replace the “bare” in these words: barely (“beerly there”), threadbare (“A threadbeer toy”), cabaret (cabeeret), barefoot (beerfoot).
  • *bier* → *beer*: As in, grubbeer (grubbier), stubbeer (stubbier), tubbeer, scabbeer and chubbeer.
  • *pare* → *beer*: As in, “Beerent-teacher meeting” and “In beerenthesis” and “Like combeering apples and oranges” and “Be prebeered (prepared)” and “Abbeerently (apparently) so.” Other words you could use: abbeerel (apparel) and transbeerent (transparent).
  • *bar* → *beer*: As in, “Beer none” and “Behind beers” and “Language beerier” and “Raise the beer” and “Beerrelling (barreling) in” and “Beergain basement.” Other words you could use: beeren (barren), beerista (barista) and sidebeer (sidebar).
  • *ber* → *beer*: As in, “Strawbeery flavoured” and “Going beerserk” and “Got your numbeer” and “Sobeer up (this one’s a bit ironic)” and “A membeer of..” Other words you could use: beereft (bereft), beerate (berate), beerth (berth), beereavement (bereavement), chambeer (chamber), ambeer (amber), membeer, cybeer, remembeer, delibeerate, libeeral, libeerty, abeerration (aberration) and cumbeersome. Notes: to be bereft is to be deprived of something.
  • *bir* → *beer*: As in, “A little beerd told me” and “Beerthday suit” and “The early beerd.”
  • *bor* → *beer*: As in, “Beered out of your mind” and “Labeer of love” and “Harbeer a grudge” and “Good neighbeers” and “Please elabeerate” and “Collabeerate with.”
  • *bur* → *beer*: As in, “A heavy beerden.” Other words you could use: beereaucracy (bureaucracy), beergeoning (burgeoning) and excalibeer (excalibur).
  • *per* → *beer*: As in, “A different beerspective” and “Third beerson” and “Motivation and beerseverance.” Other words you could use: beertinent (pertinent), beeriod (period), beerception (perception), beernicious (pernicious), beercieve (perceive), beerformance (performance), beerfect (perfect), imbeerative (imperative) and obeeration (operation).
  • Egs* → Kegs*: Some words which start with the “egs” sound (or similar) can be turned into very bad beer puns: kegs-istence (existence), kegs-iled (exiled), kegs-istential (existential), kegs-it (exit).
  • Tap: This has at least two beer-related meanings: “to tap a barrel” and “what’s on tap?”. It also has several non-beer related meanings which might be pun opportunities in the right context: “He tapped the window gently.” and “We’ve tapped all his phone calls.”
  • Head: The “head” is the frothy foam on top of a beer. Potential puns about: “Air head” and “Don’t mess with my head.” and “Above my head” and “Over my head” and “Bite someone’s head off” and “Be it on your head” and “Couldn’t make head or tail of it” and “It’ll do your head in” and “Get it into your head” and “Get your head together” and “Got your head screwed on” and “Hanging over your head” and “You need to get your head examined.” and “Head and shoulders above the rest” and “Head count” and “Head honcho” and “Head in the sand” and “Head to head” and “Hit the nail on the head” and “I could do that standing on my head” and “Head wind” and “Hold a gun to his head” and “In over your head” and “Laugh your head off” and “Level-headed” and “Lose your head” and “Make your head spin” and “Price on his head” and “Pull your head in” and “Sleepy head” and “Upon your head be it”.
  • Bruise → Booze: As in, “A boozed ego” and “You can’t protect your kids from every bump and booze.”
  • *bas* → *booze*: As in, “On a first-name boozeis (basis)” and “Back to boozeics (basics)” and “Yes, boozeically” and “The boozelisk in the Chamber of Secrets (I’m sure many people will find ways to make boozy pickup lines out of this one…so use it and similar puns with your best judgement).”
  • *bes* → *booze*: As in, “All the boozet (best)” and “Boozet (best) friends forever” and “Boozet of all” and “Boozepoke suit” and “Boozetow your wisdom” and “Sit boozeside me.” Other words you could use: booze-seech (beseech), booze-sotted (besotted), booze-siege (besiege). Notes: to beseech is to beg.
  • *bos* → *booze*: As in, booze-om (bosom), rooibooze (rooibos) and verbooze (verbose). Note: rooibos is a type of tea.
  • *bus* → *booze*: As in, “Thrown under the booze” and “Walk or take the booze” and “None of your boozeiness” and “Boozey bee” and “Course syllabooze.” Other words you could use: nimbooze (nimbus), omnibooze (omnibus) and abooze (abuse). Notes: a nimbus is a circle of light, or a halo.
  • *baz* → *booze*: As in, boozear (bazaar), booze-ooka (bazooka), booze-illion (bazillion).
  • *biz* → *booze*: As in, “Boozear (bizarre) circumstances,” and “That’s showbooze.”
  • *buz* → *booze*: As in, “Booze me in” and “Booze off” and “Booze-ing with excitement” and “Boozewords.” Other words you could use: booze-ard (buzzard), booze-ing (boozing) and boozer (buzzer).
  • *bows* → *booze*: As in, “Chasing rainbooze” and “Rainbooze and unicorns” and “Rub elbooze with.”
  • *eth’ll → *ethyl: “Ethyl” alcohol is the type of alcohol that is in alcoholic beverages like beer. Pun examples: “My brethyl smell really bad if I drink this.” and “At least my dethyl go down in history.”
  • Moult → Malt: As in “I started malting as I got older.”
  • Mould → Malt: As in “There’s malt all over my food!” and “Malty sandwiches don’t taste great.”
  • Tiny → Tinnie / Tinny: As in “The patter of tinny feet.” (“Tinny” is slang for a can of beer)
  • Krikey! → Krieky!: As in “Krieky! That’s a big croc!”
  • Coarse / course → Coors: As in “Of coors!” and “Off coors” and “University coors” and “Blown off coors” and “Crash coors” and “In due coors” and “Let nature take its coors” and “On a collision coors” and “Stay on coors” and “He had a coors voice from drinking too much.”
  • Bro, my → Brah, ma: As in “Brah, ma beer puns are great, hey?” (Brahma is a beer brand)
  • Heinie can → Heineken: As in “Get off your heineken you? We’ve got work to do!” (“Heinie” is slang for bottom)
  • Bud wiser → Budweiser: As in “I’ve got a budweiser than all you uneducated chumps.”
  • Wiser → Weiser: As in “None the weiser” and “Older and weiser
  • Bud: As in “We’re best buds” and “Nip in the bud
  • Too bored → Tuborg: As in “I didn’t stay at the party long – I was Tuborg.”
  • Leffe → Left: Note that “Leffe” has two pronunciations. The French pronunciation sounds like “leff” and the Flemish pronunciation sounds like “leffer”. Here we’re punning with the French pronunciation. Examples: “Exist stage Leffe” and “Keep Leffe” and “Leffe for dead” and “Leffe in the lurch” and “Leffe out in the cold” and “Leffe wing” and “Leffe to your own devices” and “Out of Leffe field”.
  • Leave her → Leffe: (Here we’re using the Flemish pronunciation, see above) As in “Leffe alone!” and “Are you going to Leffe anything in your will?”
  • A lesion → Elysian: As in “What happened to your leg? Is that Elysian?”
  • A legion → Elysian: As in “She has Elysian of fans following her wherever she goes.”
  • Stellar → Stella: As in “A Stella cast has been assembled.” and “The pub received Stella ratings in the guides.” (Wikipedia)
  • Bass: This refers to the famous brewery. If you’re punning with text (rather than speaking it out loud), you can play on the audio-meaning of “bass”: “I like clubs that have good Bass.” but since this has a different pronunciation, the only exact phonetic pun is on the fish of the same name.
  • Basically → Bassically: As in “I drink Bassically the same thing all the time.”
  • Millimeter → Millermeter: As in “A millermeter more and it would have been long enough!” We can do the same thing with other units of measurement too: “The can holds 375 millerliters.” and “We just needed one millersecond longer!” and “This cable is rated to 25 millervolts.” and “A millergram of this is enough to kill a person.”
  • Million → Milleron: As in “Not in a miller-on years.” and “One in a milleron.”
  • Meantime: As in “In the meantime, we should look for a new place.” (Meantime is a brewery)
  • Foster: As in “Foster a sense of confidence in the people.” and “A bar owner must Foster a happy, friendly atmosphere.” (Foster’s is a beer company)
  • Four peeks → Four Peaks: As in “It took me about four peaks to finally read the text.”
  • For Pete’s → Four Peak’s: As in “Four peak’s sake!”
  • Car owner → Corona: As in “All coronas must pay annual car registration fees.”
  • “Youngling” → Yuengling: As in “Youth is wasted on yuenglings” and “He’s a yuengling at heart.”
  • Pills → Pils: As in “I had to pop some pils to help with this headache.”
  • Pills and → Pilsen: As in “Pilsen booze are a fast track to a ruined life.” and “It’s up to parents to keep their kids away from pilsen booze.”
  • Back’s → Beck’s: As in “My beck’s really sort today for some reason.” and “Ow! My beck!”
  • Slits → Schlitz: As in “The surgeon has to make two schlitz in the intestinal wall.”
  • Shits → Schlitz: As in “He did it for schlitz and giggles.” and “You know what gives me the schiltz?”
  • Bitter: As in “He came to a bitter end.” and “That’s a bitter pill to swallow.” and “No need to be bitter! (resentful)”
  • Least→ Yeast: As in “Last, but not yeast.” and “Yeast common denominator.” and “It’s the yeast I could do.”
  • East→ Yeast: As in “I’m heading over yeast for a holiday.”
  • Grain: As in “I’m going to go against the grain here and say …” and “There’s a grain of truth in what he’s saying.” and “I’d take it with a grain of salt.”
  • Grainy: Other than referring to grain (some varieties of which are used to make beer), this can refer to a texture or to a low resolution photograph: “Your profile picture is a bit grainy.”
  • Ingrained: As in “It was ingrained in me from a young age.”
  • Again → A grain: As in “Come a grain?” and “Never a grain.” and “Time and time a grain.” and “Now and a grain.”
  • Wait → Wheat: As in “Wheat a second…” and “I am lying in wheat.” and “Wheat and see.” (See wheat beer)
  • We t* → Wheat: As in “Wheat talked about this last night.” and “Wheat took our time.”
  • We’d → Wheat: As in “Wheat love for you to join us!”
  • What → Wheat: As in “Wheatever, man.” and “Wheat are you up to today?”
  • Why → Rye: “Rye do you ask?” and “Rye do beer puns make me giggle?” and “Rye hast thou forsaken me?” and “Rye are you doing this to me?”
  • Wry → Rye: “A rye smile.” and “With rye Scottish wit.” (Rye is a type of grain used to make beer)
  • Rye: Words that contain the “rye” sound can be made into terribly silly beer puns (Since some beers are made with rye): alryete, bryete, Brydal, b-rye-testcircumscryebed, compryesed, contryeved, copyryete, cryesis, cryeterion, cryeme, dryevers, descryebe, enterpryese, depryeved, fryeday, fryed, fryetened, pryeceless, pryemarily, pryevacy, pryeority, pryez, ryenocerous, ryeteous, ryetfully, ryevalries, samurye, subscryebed, surpryesingly, tryeangle, ryeting, tryeumph, rye-fle.
  • Riled up→ Rye-led up: As in “Jeez, calm down. No need to get rye-led up!”
  • Barely → Barley: As in “I’m barley getting by.” and “That barley passes as a beer pun.”
  • Ought → Oat: As in “You oat to say sorry.” and “Five minutes oat to be enough time.”
  • Its / It’s → Oats / Oat’s: As in “Oat’s just a matter of time.” and “Oat’s a shame.” and “Oat’s nothing personal” and “Oat’s worth oats weight in gold.” and “Takes oats toll.” and “A life of oats own.”
  • Sore gum → Sorghum: As in “I’ve got sorgums because my toothbrush bristles are too hard.” (Sorghum is a grain crop often used to create alcoholic beverages)
  • *sip*: If a word contains the “sip” sound, it’s an opportunity for a terrible pun on “sip” as in “to sip your beer” (so long as you emphasise the “sip” part somehow): Mississipi, disiplinarian, munisipality, presipitate, partisiples, presipitated, prinsipally, resipient, resiprocity.
  • *sep*: If a word contains the “sep” sound it’s a chance to make a terribly corny “sip” pun (perhaps emphasise with hyphens or underline/bold): ac-sip-tability (acceptability), bisips (biceps), consiption (conception), consipt (concept), desiptive, impersiptable, desiptive, misconsiption, persiptive, resiption, resiptionist, resiptivity, resiptors, siparatists (seperatists), siparation, siparate, susiptability, intersipt.
  • Dry: As in “These tea puns are very dry.” and “Dry humour” and “Hung out to dry” and “Keep your powder dry” and “As dry as dust”.
  • Will → Swill: As in “Against your own swill.” and “Bend to my swill” and “Love swill find a way.” and “Swill do.” and “Where there’s a swill, there’s a way.” and “Time swill tell.”
  • Back → Bock / Beck: As in “As soon as my bock is turned” and “At the bock of my mind” and “Bock to the Future” and “Bock from the dead” and “Bock in business” and “Bock in the day” and “Bock on your feet” and “He bocked out of the deal” and “Bock to bock” and “Cast your mind bock” and “Get off my bock” and “Fight bock the tears” and “Get bock on your feet” and “Get bock together” and “Hark bock to” and “Kick bock and enjoy” and “Laid bock” and “Money bock guarantee” and “On the bock burner” and “Never look bock” and “One step forward, two steps bock.” and “Put your bock into it!” and “Right bock at ya” and “Turn bock the clock” and “Watch your bock” and “You scratch my bock, I’ll scratch yours.” (Bock is a strong German lager, and the above examples can be replaced with “Beck” to play on the famous Beck’s brewery)
  • Back* → Bock* / Beck*: Words that begin with the “back” sound can also be silly beer puns: bockache, bockdrop, bockbone, bockground, bocklash, bocklog, bockside, bockroom, bockstage, bockward, bockyard, bockteria (bacteria), bockterium. (These examples can have “bock” replaced with “beck” to play on the famous Beck’s brewery)
  • Handy → Shandy: As in “This is a very shandy tool.”
  • Sandy → Shandy: As in “My towel is all shandy from the beach.”
  • Pass it → Posset: As in “Can you please posset over here?”
  • Spruce: As in “Make sure you leave some time to spruce yourself for the ball.” and “I’m all spruced up.” (See Spruce beer on Wikipedia)
  • Arrogant bastard: A simple pun on the brewing company.
  • I’m a real oldy → Amarilloldy: As in “Amarillo-ldy when it comes to my taste in beer.”
  • Citra → Sit ya: As in “Citra ass down!” – The name of a brew from Against the Grain. “Citra” is a variety of hops.
  • Nugget: As in “Nugget of wisdom” and “Nugget of truth” (Nugget is a hop variety)
  • Soz → Saaz: As in “Oh saaz! I didn’t mean to!”
  • Sim card → Simcoed: As in “I lost my phone so I need a new simcoed
  • Put her → Porter: As in “Porter down!” and “She porter hand to learning coding in her spare time.”
  • Fruity: Other than referring to the fruity taste or aroma of a brew, this term also has several slang definitions including being flamboyant or “bouncy”. It may also refer to someone who is considered crazy in some respect.
  • Noble: As in “That was very noble of you.” and “The four noble truths.” (“Noble hops” are traditionally hops which are low in bitterness and high in aroma, like Saaz)
  • Great → Gruit: As in “All creatures gruit and small.” and “I went to gruit lengths” and “Gruit minds think alike” and “The gruit outdoors” and “No challenge too gruit.” (Very corny! Gruit is an old-fashined herb mixture used for bittering and flavouring beer)
  • Asked → Oast: As in “Frequently oast questions” and “No questions oast” and “I took my harp to the party but no one oast me to play.”
  • Killin’ → Kiln: As in “She’s making a kiln!” and “Stop it, you’re kiln me!”
  • Nipple → Tipple: A tipple can refer to an alcoholic drink, or as a verb to “drink alcohol, especially habitually”.
  • Long neck → Longneck: A longneck is a common type of beer bottle.
  • Mouth feel → Mouthfeel: As in “It makes my mouthfeel funny, but it’s not too bad.” (See Wikipedia entry, Mouthfeel)
  • After taste → Aftertaste: As in “Aftertasting that beer, I’m not going back for seconds.” (See Wikipedia entry, Aftertaste)
  • Stupid → Stube-d: As in “Keep it simple, stube-d” and “Terminally stube-d” and “There’s no such thing as a stube-d question.”
  • Hey for → Hefe: As in “Hefe god’s sake could you cut it out?” (“Hefe” means “yeast” in German and sounds like “hay-fa”)
  • Goes up → Gose-p: As in “Right before it gose-p in flames.”
  • Say, son → Saison: As in “Saison, could you fetch me that spanner?”
  • Worth → Wort: As in “It’s wort it’s weight in gold.” and “For what it’s wort …” and “Get your money’s wort” and “Milk it for all it’s wort” and “Not wort a hill of beans” and “That’s my two cents wort
  • Ton / Tonne → Tun: As in “Came down like a tun of bricks.” and “That’s a tun of beer.”
  • Troop / Troupe → Trub: As in “A comedy trub is performing here tonight.” and “The trubs marched through the town.”
  • Least → Lees: As in “Last but not lees” and “Lees common denominator” and “Not in the lees” and “Line of lees resistance.”
  • Law to → Lauter: As in “There should be a lauter prevent people form making terrible beer puns.”
  • Lautering → Loitering: As in “There’s always a few shady people lautering around there at night.”
  • Spargin’ → Spare gin: As in “There wasn’t any spargin’ so I happily drank beer instead”
  • Tanning → Tannin: As in “Welcome to my tannin salon.”
  • For men t* → Ferment: As in “What we need is fermen to realise that catcalling isn’t friendly.”

Beer-Related Phrases

Common phrases, idioms and cliches which are related to beer can be used for some subtle and witty word play. Here is a list of the beer themed phrases that we’ve found so far:

  • (h)opposites attract
  • process of eliminating (h)options
  • a golden (h)opportunity
  • once in a lifetime (h)opportunity
  • window of (h)opportunity
  • contrary to popular (h)opinion
  • Adam’s ale
  • amber nectar
  • as drunk as a lord
  • as drunk as a skunk
  • as mild as milk
  • barrel of laughs
  • came to a bitter end
  • take the bitter with sweet
  • a bitter pill to swallow
  • bring out your best (a Bud Light slogan)
  • crack a tinnie
  • crack/bust some suds
  • slam a drink
  • drink like a fish
  • driven to drink
  • drink up
  • drink someone under the table
  • full of hops
  • given to drink
  • life’s not all beer and skittles
  • pint sized
  • on the piss
  • rolling drunk
  • six pack
  • slave to drink
  • stout fellow
  • you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make her drink
  • slam some beers
  • egg in your beer
  • small beer
  • knock one back
  • social drinker
  • bottoms up!
  • here’s to [someone/something]!
  • drink to excess
  • drown your sorrows
  • on a bender
  • on the rocks
  • make it a double
  • down the hatch
  • hair of the dog
  • happy hour
  • liquid courage
  • pub crawl
  • another round
  • two/three/four sheets in the wind
  • under full sail
  • under the influence
  • take the edge off
  • chin chin! (cheers!)
  • off their head
  • roll out the barrel
  • BYOB
  • on tap
  • Dutch courage
  • sudsing up
  • beer belly
  • trouble is brewing
  • a hop, skip and a jump
  • hip hop
  • clouded judgement
  • get you over a barrel
  • seperate the wheat from the chaff
  • barrel of laughs
  • belt down some liquor
  • as slow as molasses in january
  • cakes and ale
  • eat, drink and be merry
  • full head of steam
  • head in the clouds
  • hit the nail on the head
  • i’d lose my head if it wasn’t attached
  • i need it like a hole in the head
  • in over your head
  • my head is swimming
  • off the top of my head
  • off with his head
  • put a price on his head
  • two heads are better than one
  • keep your head above water
  • it’s all grist to the mill
  • walk like a drunken sailor

Beer-Related Words

There are many more puns to be made than could be documented in this Punpedia entry, and so we’ve compiled a list of beer-related concepts for you to use when creating your own puns. If you come up with a new pun, please share it in the comments!

brew, brewery, brewski, stein, schooner, tankard, seidel, pitcher, clink, suds, plastered, wasted, sloshed, smashed, hammered, bombed, messed up, hangover, hungover, chug, chugalug, sober, toast, cheers, drunkard, drunk, drunkenness, legless, tipsy, blotto, trousered, trolleyed, inebriated, quaff, sip, numb, corked, stubby, stubbies, ale, cask, cask ale, growler, draught beer, draft beer, draft, draught, keg, nitrokeg, tap, beer tap, head, prohibition, alcohol, alcoholic, alcoholism, ethyl alcohol, malt, hops, noble hops, beverage, liquor, liqueur, pub crawl, drink, wheat, rye, sorghum, barley, oats, millet, brewpub, rotgut, hooch, alcopop, tipple, tippler, intoxication, homebrew, beery, long neck, mouthfeel, aftertaste, imbibe, pub, bar, saloon, brasserie, vine, six-pack, tinnie, chaser, rathskeller, cellar, porter, cerveza, froth, frothie, coldie, swill, alehouse, stube, biergarten, beer garden, Oktoberfest, barrel, full-bodied, thin-bodied, publican, yeast, Ninkasi, palate, punt, chill, binge

bock, maibock, doppelbock, eisbock, weizenbock, altbier, berliner weisse, dortmunder export, dunkel, gose, helles, kellerbier, kolsch, marzen, pale lager, roggenbier, schwarzbier, smoked beer, wheat beer, zoigl, dubbel, Flanders red ale, lambicger, framboise, gueuze, kriek, oud bruin, quadrupel, saison, tripel, witbier, brown ale, Indian pale ale, mild ale, old ale, porter, Scotch ale, stout, amber ale, American pale ale, American wild ale, cream ale, ice lager, Kentucky common beer, pumpkin ale, steam beer, baltic porter, biere de garde, copper ale, corn beer, grodziskie, gratzer, hard soda, Irish red ale, light beer, malt beer, millet beer, pale ale, pilsner, rye beer, sahti, small beer, sour beer, Vienna lager, trappist, sommelier, root beer, apple beer, birch beer, ginger beer, horehound beer, oatmeal stout, sake, shandy, brown ale, posset, schankbier, spruce beer, weissbier, weizen beer, hefe, hefeweizen, Lowenbrau, Hamm, Arrogant Bastard, Fat Tire, Haffenreffer, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Nastro Azzurro

amarillo, cascade, centennial, chinook, citra, crystal, CTZ, fuggle, Golding, lambic, magnum, mosaic, Mt. Hood, Northern Brewer, nugget, Perle, Saaz, Simcoe, Tardif De Bourgogne, Williamette, cluster

Coors, Brahma, Harbin, Heineken, Yanjing, Skol, Budweiser, Bud, Bud Light, Tsingtao, Snow, Carlsberg, Tuborg, Leffe, Elysian, Stella Artois, Bass, Miller, Peroni, Meantime, Radegast, Foster’s, Molson Coors, Labatt, Bintang, Goose Island, Tecate, Amstel, Birra Moretti, Four Peaks, Kronenbourg 1664, Corona, Sam Adams, Guinness, Yuengling, Efes Pilsen, Dogfish Head, San Miguel, Becks, Heady Topper, Kingfisher, Harveys, Hoegaarden, Dos Equis, Sierra Nevada, Theakston, Mikkeller, Schlitz

steep, wort, mashout, lautering, lauter, lauter tun, mash tun, tun, mash, ferment, fermentation, turbidimeter, nephelometer, sparge, sparging, tannin, pH, chaff, husk, starch, starches, sugar, enzymes, dry hopping, sprouted, molasses, carbon dioxide, carbonation, grist, gluten, microbrewery, kegger, barm, leavening, barrelage, all-malt, amber, anaerobic, black malt, bung, caramel, dextrin, ester, filter, fining, malt-extract, priming, tart, milling, nitrogen, phenols, gruit, mugwort, oast house, kiln

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