transitive and intransitive. To drink; keep on drinking, tipple.

transitive. To drink or quaff in large draughts; to drain (a goblet); also with out, over. Also absol. or intransitive.

transitive. To drink (a liquid) copiously or in a large draught. Also figurative.

To drink freely, greedily, or to excess, like hogs devouring ‘swill’ or ‘wash’. transitive. (Occasionally with down, formerly also in.)

transitive. To drink off or up, to drain, to quaff, to swill; to drink (a health). Obsolete.

transitive. To drink (intoxicating liquor), esp. to take (drink) constantly in small quantities.

To keep drinking, to drink. transitive. Obsolete.

figurative. To put or store as in a cask; spec. to drink to excess, to swill oneself with. Also absol.

transitive.

transitive. To drink, esp. to drink copiously and habitually.

quasi-transitive with away. †Also, to empty (a pot) by drinking.

transitive. humorous. To eat up (food) quickly or voraciously; (also) to drink (esp. an alcoholic drink) in this manner.

transitive. To drink (esp. alcoholic drink) quickly or in quantity. Cf. to throw down 12 at phrasal verbs, to knock back 2 at knock, v. phrasal verbs.