Jigger
Jigger is used to measure out (fluid) of liquor.
Shot Glass
The word "shot", meaning a drink of alcohol, has been used since at least the 17th century, while reference to a shot specifically as a small drink of spirits is known in the U.S. since at least the 1920s. The phrase "shot glass" has been in use since at least 1940.
Sizes of Shot Glass
*Note fl oz is abbreviation from fluid ounce is a unit of volume (also called capacity) typically used for measuring liquids.
*N/A or n/a is a common abbreviation in table and lists for the phrase not applicable, not available, or no answer. It's used to indicate when information in a certain table cell is not provided, either because it doesn't apply to a particular case in question or because the answer in not available.
Country
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Small
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Single
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Double
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Notes
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Australia
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30 ml
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60 ml
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A single
shot is sometimes called a “nip”. At 30 mL, a typical spirit with 40 percent
alcohol is roughly equivalent to one Australian standard drink.
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Bulgaria
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50 ml
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100 ml
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Canada
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30 ml
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44 ml
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71 ml
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In Canada,
a “shot” may refer to an official “standard drink” of 42.6 ml though many
Establishments serve a “standard drink” of 1 oz. However, shot glasses
available in Canada typically are manufactured according to US fluid ounces
rather than imperial. Making them about 4% larger.
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Denmark
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20 ml
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40 ml
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Estonia
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20 or 30 ml
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40 ml
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Finland
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20 ml
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40 ml
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n/a
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In
Finland, the amount of strong alcohol that restaurant are allowed to serve is
regulated by law
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France
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25 0r 35 ml
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50 or 70 ml
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Germany
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20 ml
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40 ml
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In
Germany, shot glasses are smaller
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Greece
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45 ml
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90 ml
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A shot is
commonly referred to as a “Sfinaki” and it can be made of one liquor or a
cocktail mix. There is also an 3 oz “bottom up” version of “Sfinaki” called
“ipovrihio”, Greek word for submarine. It’s served in a standard liquor glass
half full of blonde beer, where the bartender adds a glass shot filled with
vodka or whiskey.
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Hungary
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20 or 30 ml
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40 or 50 ml
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80 or 100 ml
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In
Hungarian, shot glasses are called felespohár
(feles means half, standing for 0.5 dl)
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India
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30 ml
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30 ml
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60 ml
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A shot is
commonly referred to as a”peg”, and is measured as a”small”(chhota), or a “large”
(bud-da) peg. A 120 ml shot in India is called a Patiala peg.
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Ireland
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35.5 ml
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71 ml
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Derived
from the use of a quarter-gill (35.516 ml, one sixteenth of a pint) as the
traditional lrish spirit measure.
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Isreal
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30 ml
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50 or 60 ml
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In Israel,
the common word for a small shot is צ'ייסר (chaser)
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Italy
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30 ml
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40 or 60 ml
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In Italy,
the common word for a shot is cicchetto
or more informally and used mainly in nightclubs by young people, shortino.
In North Italy, the cicchetto is
the most common way to taste grappa from at least two centuries.
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Japan
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30 ml
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60 ml
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In
Japanese, the word ショットグラス
(shottogurasu) is the singular term
for a shot glass.
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Poland
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50 ml
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100 ml
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A standard
shot (small) is called pięćdziesiątka (lit. fifty,
as in 50 ml) while a large shot (double) is called setka or colloquially, seta
(lit. a hundred, as in 100 ml)
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Romania
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50 ml
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100 ml
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A single
shot is traditionally known in Romanian language as unu mic (una mică) meaning “a small one” or or cinzeacă,
meaning “a fifty”, as in 50 ml. A double shot is simply called unu (una mare), meaning “one(big)”
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Russia
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50 ml
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100 ml
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Both
single and double shots are commonly called стопка (stópka) in
Russian, though a variety of slang names exist. Before metrication a single
shot was called шкалик (shkálik)
and amounted to 61.5 ml, while a double was called чарка (chárka)
and was equal to 123 ml — both names are still occasionally used.
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Serbia
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20 ml
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30 - 50 ml
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60 - 100 ml
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A single
shot is traditionally known in the Sebian language as чашица за ракију and ракијска чашица, meaning “small glass for rakija" and "rakija glass”, or
simply as мера—мерица,
meaning “measure”. A double shot is simply called Дупли,
meaning “a double”, while the smallest, 20 ml glass, is known as dvojka meaning
“two”
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Sweden
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20 ml
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40 ml
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120 ml
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A single
shot is referred to as a fyra,
meaning “a four” and a double is referred to as a sexa, meaning “a six”
as Swedes generally use centiliters rather than milliliters
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Slovakia
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20 or 25 ml
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40 or 50 ml
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80 or 100 ml
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The most
common single shot size in the pol deci (literally, “half a deciliter”, 50 ml )
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Slovenia
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30 ml
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50 ml
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100 ml
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The 50 ml
size is colloquially known as nula pet (“zero five”, meaning 0.5 of a deciliter), and the small
one nula tri (“zero three”). Another common term for a single shot is
ta kratek, meaning “the short one”
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South Africa
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25 ml
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50 ml
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The South
African government has an official definition for the single shot size.
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United Kingdom
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25 or 35 ml
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50 or 70 ml
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Shots sold
on premises must contain either 25 ml or 35 ml measures of whisky, gin, rum,
or vodka as defined in the weights and measures act of 1985. This requirement
does not extend to other spirits. A 2001 amendment allowed a double shot of
70 ml to be served. Generally, a single measure is equal to 35 ml in Northern
Ireland and Scotland and 25 ml in England and Wales.
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United States
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30 ml (1 US fl oz)
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44 ml (1.5 US fl oz)
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59 to 89 ml (20 to 3 US fl oz)
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There is
no standard size for a single shot, except in Utah, where a shot is defined
as 1.5 U.S fl oz (44 ml). Elsewhere in
the U.S., the standard size is generally considered to be 1.25 – 1.5 U.S fl
oz (37 – 44 ml). A double shot in the U.S may be 2 fl oz or more.
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Sources
@ https://www.wikipedia.org/
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