To take alcoholic or intoxicating liquor, either convivially, or to gratify appetite; to indulge therein to excess; to tipple; spec. to be a…

to blow (in) a bowl: to tipple, to be a habitual drunkard. Obsolete.

transitive. Originally: to smoke, chew, or otherwise take (tobacco), esp. habitually. Now chiefly: to take (a drug, esp. an illegal one) regularly or…