transitive (reflexive). To drink more than one should (usually with reference to alcohol); to carry on drinking until one is drunk. Also in…

reflexive with reference to excessive drinking.

intransitive and reflexive. To tipple or guzzle drink.

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

In predicative use (chiefly as object complement). colloquial. In phrases denoting actions carried out thoroughly or to an excessive degree, esp…

Chiefly to tank up. intransitive for reflexive. To fill oneself with drink, to drink heavily. Also reflexive. Cf. tanked, adj. 1. slang.