straight glass

straight glass
n
a plain glass with no handle that holds one pint of beer. Most pubs in Britain serve beer in these glasses and also in ‘pint pots’ which have handles and are made of thicker glass, and many beer drinkers prefer their beer in one type of glass or the other:

Would you like a straight glass or a handle?

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