plural. The drinking of intoxicating liquor; potations, drunken revelry. in one's cups: †(a) while drinking, during a drinking-bout (also †amidst, a…

An occasion of drinking; a convivial revel.

A wine-drinking carousal. Obsolete.

An occasion of drunken revelry; an orgy.

a drunken revel; a drinking bout.

A drinking or tippling together, drinking-bout, carouse, symposium.

A drinking bout or drinking party. Cf. carouse, n. 3.

Drunken revelry; a tippling bout, an orgy.

a drinking bout.

Used of a continued fit of drinking.

a fit of hard drinking.

A drinking bout; a carousal; carousing.

A fit of carousing, a drinking-feast or carouse; revelry in drinking.

(colloquial) A drinking-bout; a drunken fit or orgie; a state of drunkenness.

A drinking-bout, a carouse.

A drinking match; a drunken fit, a spree (U.S. slang); esp. in the phrase on the toot; hence, a tea party.

An attack or ‘go’ (at); dialect a drinking-bout.

spec. A more or less prolonged bout or spell of drinking; a drunken carousal.

A drinking bout. on the fuddle: out for a lengthened spell of drinking.

Scottish. A bout of drinking; a drunken revel, a spree. Obsolete.

A binge, a drinking bout. Chiefly in to go on the bust (also to go a bust): to go on a binge; (also) to do something extravagantly or…

A drinking bout.

A bout of drinking; a riotous party. slang (originally U.S.).

A spree or binge.

A binge, a drinking bout; = bust, n.3 2. Cf. bender, n. 5b. Now rare.

colloquial. A prolonged bout of drunkenness, a ‘spree’. Also a big feed, a ‘blow out’. (See also bust, n.3)

A prolonged draught or drinking-bout.

A heavy drinking-bout; hence, a spree.

The action of going on a drinking spree or getting drunk. Cf. bum, n.6 1. Obsolete.

An extravagant or riotous celebration, a binge; = bust, n.3 2. Now rare.

A drinking spree. Obsolete.

Drinking, a drinking bout.

The action or habit of drinking (to excess); a time or occasion of drinking. rare except in colloquial phrase on the drink. Cf. drunk, adj. 1.

transitive. English regional (northern and midlands). To condemn and humiliate (a husband) publicly for beating his wife, typically by causing a…

The drinking of intoxicating liquor; a drinking-bout. archaic. Cf. cup, n. 10, cup, v. 2.

A walk at a leisurely pace. beer-crawl, gin-crawl, pub-crawl: a slow progress from one drinking-place to another. slang.

colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). A wild drinking spree. See bender, n. 5b.

(also Australian and New Zealand slang, a drinking bout), breakdown, n., break-up, n., etc.

U.S. colloquial. A habitual drinking bout or spree. Now rare.

As much liquor as a man can carry; a ‘load’ of drink. Also, a drinking bout; the state or a period of being drunk. dialect and colloquial.

a drinking bout.

With adverbs, as -out (see slop, v.2 1c), -over; slopping-up (North American slang), a drinking-bout.

A heavy drinking-bout. U.S. slang.

a visit to a succession of pubs with drinks at each one; cf. gin-crawl at crawl, n.1 b.

A drunken bout or orgy; a binge.

a drinking-bout or -party.

= periodical, n. 2. rare.

A bout of drunkenness, a drunken spree; chiefly in on the scoot. Australian and New Zealand colloquial.

A state of intoxication; hence, a drinking bout; a spree or ‘binge’. Also transferred. Now rare.

U.S. slang. A drinking spree, a binge.

A drinking spree.

A session or bout, esp. of drinking.

A period devoted to heavy drinking; a drinking-bout. colloquial (chiefly Australian).

Chiefly British, Australian, and New Zealand. A session of heavy drinking; an occasion where heavy drinking takes place.

slang (chiefly Australian). A drinking bout.

The action of consuming a large quantity of alcohol in a short period of time.