drink

v

1. imbibe, quaff, sip, sup, Archaic. bib, Inf. swig, Inf. belt, Inf. pull; drain, wash down, toss off; gulp, swallow, Sl. guzzle or guzzle down, Sl. swill or swill down.

2.(all of alcoholic beverages) tipple, tope, bouse or bowse, Inf. booze, bibble, nip, Archaic. dram; drink like a fish, drink hard, drink seriously; get drunk, Sl. get plastered or pickled, Brit. Sl. get bevied; All Inf. gargle, wet or moisten one's whistle, take a drop, chug, chug-a-lug, lap, lap up, commune with the spirits, drown one's sorrows; All Sl. hit the sauce or bottle or booze, scoop a few, knock a few back, liquor up, souse, dip the beak, exercise or crook or bend or raise the elbow; overindulge, carouse, revel, wassail, go on a spree, make the rounds, Sl. tie one on, Sl. go on a binge or bender or drunk, Sl. paint the town red, Brit. Inf. pub-crawl.

3. toast, toast to, drink a toast to, drink to, pledge, drink or pledge the health of.

4. absorb, suck up, draw up or in, take up or in, drink up or in; sponge, sponge up, soak up, blot up, sop up; ingest.

n

5. beverage, potable or potables, drinkable or drinkables, liquid, liquid refreshment; soft drink, nonalcoholic beverage; cold drink, thirst quencher.

6. intoxicant, alcoholic beverage, potation; liquor, alcohol, spirits, John Barleycorn, the demon rum, Inf. booze, Inf. hard stuff, Sl. likker, Sl. hooch, Sl. sauce, Sl. red-eye, Sl. medicine; Sl. rot gut, Sl. poison, Sl. blue ruin; moonshine, firewater, Sl. mountain dew, Sl. white lightning; mixed drink, cocktail, highball, Inf. chaser; stimulant, bracer, Inf. eye-opener; nightcap, Brit. Inf. sundowner; the bottle, the cup, the cup that cheers; parting cup, stirrup cup, Scot. doch-an-dorrach or -dorris or wee doch-an-dorrach.

7. intoxication, insobriety, inebriety, inebriation, drunkenness, intemperance, Inf. tipsiness; alcoholism, dipsomania, problem or heavy drinking, serious drinking, habitual drunkenness, bibulousness, crapulence or crapulency, crapulousness; drinking, imbibing, heavy-drinking, tippling, toping, bibition, bibation, bibbing, bibbling, Rare. bibbery, Inf. boozing, Inf. swilling, Sl. hitting the bottle or sauce or booze. Brit. Sl. bevying.

8. draft, quaff, bumper, potation, libation, Brit. Sl. bevy; nip, spot, tot, jigger, Inf. finger or two; sip, sup, Inf. swig, Inf. swill, Inf. pull, Inf. snort, Inf. jolt; swallow, Inf. slug, Inf. guzzle, Inf. gargle; lap, slurp.

9. ocean, sea, the deep, the brine, the briny deep, Inf. the briny, Sl. the big drink.