单词 | alcoholiday |
释义 | alcoholidayn. humorous. A holiday or period of leisure spent drinking alcoholic liquor. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > [noun] > a period of > holidays > specific type summer vacation1507 public holiday1736 summer holiday1746 school holiday1777 Cook's tour1856 alcoholiday1877 busman's holiday1893 caravan holiday1899 caravanning holiday1924 staycation1944 spring break1956 farm stay1957 charter1959 ski pack1969 staycation2008 1877 Huddersfield Daily Chron. 11 Jan. 4/3 Our fete days are our alcoholidays. 1906 W. De Morgan Joseph Vance xxxvi. 324 Your disgustin' old Daddy had been..giving himself..a. sort of alcoholiday. 1924 A. M. W. Stirling Life's Little Day ix. 170 Some woman lay prone upon the pavement, obviously suffering from the effects of a recent ‘alcoholiday’. 1958 E. Birney Turvey vii. 79 He had never been in such a cosy beer parlour in all his alcoholidays. 1983 A. Melville-Ross Shadow xv. 157 He had kept Bulstrode company on what he called his ‘alcoholiday’. 2011 Sun (Nexis) 24 Nov. 32 Our road trip..ended up being somewhere between a countrywide research mission and an all-consuming alcoholiday. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1877 |
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