seshn.
/sɛʃ/ colloquial (originally Services' slang).
A session or bout, esp. of drinking.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [noun] > drinking intoxicating liquor > period of drinking
sesh1943
session1943
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > drinking-bout
cups1406
drinking?1518
banquet1535
Bacchanal1536
pot-revel1577
compotation1593
rouse1604
Bacchanalia1633
potmealc1639
bout1670
drinking-bout1673
carouse1690
carousal1765
drunk1779
bouse1786
toot1790
set-to1808
spree1811
fuddlea1813
screed1815
bust1834
lush1841
bender1846
bat1848
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burst1849
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binge1854
bumming1860
bust-out1861
bum1863
booze1864
drink1865
ran-tan1866
cupping1868
crawl1877
hellbender1877
break-away1885
periodical1886
jag1894
booze-up1897
slopping-up1899
souse1903
pub crawl1915
blind1917
beer-up1919
periodic1920
scoot1924
brannigan1927
rumba1934
boozeroo1943
sesh1943
session1943
piss-up1950
pink-eye1958
binge drinking1964
1943 Airflow (Ceylon) Christmas 368/1 An Orderly Sergeant, roused from a convivial ‘sesh’ on Boxing Night.
1944 G. Netherwood Desert Squadron 119 Empty lager bottles..signified that Hans and Fritz also knew the joys of a desert ‘sesh’.
1985 M. Munro Patter 61 A session..is a spell of drinking... Sometimes shortened to sesh: ‘That was a rare wee sesh last Friday.’
1987 Financial Times 18 July i. 6 ‘We're not going to win a prize for graphics,’ said Syd Silverman in a sesh this week.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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