| 单词 | to rush the growler |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto rush the growler (also can, bucket, etc.) P4. U.S. slang. to rush the growler (also can, bucket, etc.): to fetch beer from a saloon in a growler (growler n. 4), can, or some other vessel. Hence: to drink freely; to get drunk. Now historical. ΚΠ 1884 St. Louis (Missouri) Daily Globe-Democrat 20 July 5/1 Why, don't you know what rushing the panicker is? It's rushing the can, that's what it is. 1887 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Daily Jrnl. 1 Aug. 1/5 Wm. Bradley and John Shea..sat under the shade of a freight car, rushing the growler until they thought they owned the park. 1900 Med. Arena Mar. 76 Rush the bucket for more beer. 1914 S. Lewis Our Mr. Wrenn xiv. 190 I'll make Tom or Duncan rush us a growler of beer. 1954 L. Armstrong Satchmo 112 He would..buy everyone in sight a drink. Then he would really rush the can. 1974 Chicago Tribune 1 Oct. iii. 2/2 This one really hot afternoon I rushed the growler a couple of times for a neighborhood whore. 1991 N.Y. Times 1 Dec. 108/3 The brewpub..has revived an old American custom known as rushing the growler. < as lemmas |
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