intransitive. To act as a bacchanal, indulge in revelry.

figurative (chiefly Scottish). to loose (also let loose) a pin: to let down one's defences; to lose self-control; to have an outburst. Obsolete.

(reflexive and passive) to drink heavily, ‘soak’; intransitive to have a ‘binge’; transitive to enliven, const. up (cf. ‘pep up’).

Persons or other agents are also said to break out intoor in some manifestation of feeling or some action. (New Zealand examples refer to a drinking…

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…

intransitive. To go on a spree; to make a night of it. U.S.

slang (originally Australian). A call to a waiter to replenish the glasses of a company; hence, a turn in paying for a round of drinks. Also, a free…

intransitive to go on a pub crawl; to drink at a succession of different pubs.

intransitive. To move from bar to bar, spending only a short time drinking in each. Cf. pub-crawl v. at pub, n.1 compounds 2.

intransitive. To drink a large quantity of alcohol in a short period of time; to engage in binge drinking.