transitive. To take a draught or drink of (liquid, esp. an alcoholic drink); to sip or swig (a draught of liquid); †to drink from (a tankard…

to crush a cup of wine, to crush a pot of ale, etc.: to drink, quaff, ‘discuss’ it: cf. crack, v. 10.

to take one's rouse: to have an alcoholic drink or drinks.

transferred. To get at the contents of (a bottle or other vessel); to empty, drink, ‘discuss’.

transitive. To imbibe, drink (liquor). Also figurative.

transitive. To make away with or consume (drink), waste or squander (one's money). Obsolete or dialect.

transitive and intransitive. To drink (esp. alcohol). Cf. bub, n.3

transitive. To drink, quaff; = tiff, v.2 (also intransitive).

transitive. To bibble or tipple.

transitive. To drink.

colloquial. transitive. To partake of (a portion of food or (esp.) an alcoholic drink); to eat or drink, esp. in a social context.

transitive. slang. To consume (a drink, esp. an alcoholic drink). Cf. down, v.1 6b.

transitive. To drink in nips. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. colloquial (originally Australian and New Zealand). To consume (an alcoholic drink), esp. rapidly; = down, v.1 6b.