drinkingdrink‧ing /ˈdrɪŋkɪŋ/ noun [uncountable] 
after a night of heavy drinking (=drinking a lot of alcohol)drinking companion/buddy/partner etc
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- Anyone can help by making a clear list of what he or she sees as the consequences of the sufferer's drinking.
- He was very sociable, and enjoyed eating, drinking and smoking.
- Is drinking affecting your reputation? 5.
- The theatre played in the evenings, the nights were for drinking.
Longman Language Activatorto stop drinking alcoholic drinks
to stop drinking anything alcoholic, especially because it is becoming a problem: · Sam's been told that unless he stops drinking, he could be dead within a year.· I didn't realize I had a problem until I tried to give up drinking but couldn't.
informal no longer drink alcohol, or to have stopped drinking alcohol for a short time: · Do you want a beer, Harry, or are you still on the wagon?· I thought you were on the wagon!
drunk someone who is drunk has drunk too much alcohol and cannot think clearly or behave sensibly: · She was so drunk she could hardly stand up.· Gary was too drunk to remember what had happened that night.get drunk (=become drunk): · I just hope they don't get too drunk and start fighting.
British spoken drunk - many people consider this to be an impolite word: · Every time she goes to a party she gets pissed.· Don't listen to him - he's pissed.
to have drunk too much alcohol so that you feel very drunk or sick: · I'd better take Tanya home - she's had too much to drink.· He usually has one too many and starts making a fool of himself.
written a drunken person is drunk and their drunken behaviour shows that they are drunk: · A couple of drunken sailors were arguing with a policeman outside the bar.· The place was full of noise and drunken shouting.drunken brawl (=a fight between people who are drunk): · Many of their beer parties ended in a drunken brawl.in a drunken stupor (=almost unconscious as a result of being drunk): · We found him lying by the roadside in a drunken stupor.
formal drunk - use this especially in legal, official, and medical contexts: · Jensen was found guilty of driving while intoxicated.· Our policy is not to serve alcohol to anyone who is already intoxicated.
use this about someone who you know has been drinking alcohol because they are behaving as if they were drunk or because you can smell alcohol on their breath: · Have you guys been drinking all day?· She answered the door in her bathrobe and I could tell she'd been drinking.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY after a night of heavy drinking (=drinking a lot of alcohol)COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Heavy drinking during pregnancy can damage your baby.
after a night of heavy drinking (=drinking a lot of alcohol) (=someone you go out with to drink alcohol)· George was out again with his drinking companions.
(=drinking too much alcohol)· Your excessive drinking has to stop.
(=the kinds of things you eat or drink regularly)· You need to change your eating habits.
Heavy drinking during pregnancy can damage your baby. (=water that you can drink safely)· There is no source of drinking water on the island.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· Even such mundane tasks as eating or drinking have found a place in some ballets.· Forget not good enough, she was still eating and drinking and her flat was usually warm.· Angels also attended their eating and their drinking.· There was a lot of singing and dancing, and eating and drinking.
· There are also the dangers of cutting down on food to pay for drink or drifting into excessive drinking due to loneliness.· Abusive or excessive drinking is harmful not only to society but to the long-term interests of the industry as well.
· Around 1 in every 1,000 births are handicapped due to heavy drinking during pregnancy, although the handicap is usually mild rather than severe.· David, from Torrington, Devon, joined three pals for the evening, despite being told it might involve heavy drinking.· Do not cover up aspects of your lifestyle, such as heavy drinking, which you think may make you look less respectable.· Many people seem simply to grow out of heavy drug use, rather as many young drinkers mature out of heavy drinking.· With prolonged heavy drinking, the effects of alcohol on health can be drastic.· Many people have succumbed to torpor after a week's heavy drinking.· December 8, 1924: I am at the moment just recovering from a heavy bout of drinking.· Whether they are or not, they can suffer severe medical, social and other consequences from their consistent heavy drinking.
· Despite medical advice about sensible drinking, many people still over-indulge, particularly in the run-up to Christmas and the New Year.· Yet many of us do not really know how much we drink or the medically recommended sensible drinking levels.
· Patients with adenocarcinoma had smoking and drinking histories similar to those patients with severe oesophagitis.· Patients of both groups were comparable in their ages and in their smoking and drinking habits.
NOUN· Almost all damage is, in the early stages, reversible provided people stop drinking alcohol.· He should also avoid drinking alcohol.· Avoid drinking alcohol or fruit juices. 6.· Also useful is regular exercise, taking adequate daily calcium and not smoking or drinking alcohol to excess.· Similarly, do not have a hot bath after a heavy meal or after drinking alcohol - the same thing could happen.· And anyone found guilty of drinking alcohol may be subjected to 80 lashes of a cane.
· You would catch them corners drinking beer.· Soon, she thought, he would take to wearing shapeless brown coats, and drinking beer for breakfast instead of coffee.· Our first stop was the Forge, where a bunch of Old-Timers sat drinking beer on the wooden porch.· Three other late-night drivers were eating sandwiches and drinking beer.· No one was really surprised when he checked out a week later after an argument about drinking beer in his room.· Mending his clocks and drinking beer.· That was the place where the men of the village spent their evenings, drinking beer and talking by the fire.· Everyone was merry and laughing, drinking beer.
· He spotted Amaranth Wilikins drinking champagne with Charles Harvey and a second man whose name he did not know.· With precious little to celebrate, and even less money with which to do it, many have stopped drinking champagne altogether.
· Quinn was in the sitting-room drinking coffee.· In the newsroom, reporters hung around drinking coffee as they read or talked.· They sat for several minutes, drinking coffee and talking companionably of this and that.· So if, for example, you always smoke a cigarette when you have a cup of coffee, avoid drinking coffee.· Vargas sat in the corner drinking coffee and reading a newspaper.· Whether drinking coffee with his production people, chatting to his secretary or strolling along the corridor, his approach is professional.· He spent half an hour in the restaurant, drinking coffee.· We are sitting around drinking coffee in his flat, but you would think we were drinking champagne.
· Irony is, after all, the modern mode, a drinking companion for resonance and wit.· Sergei Ivanov will be sorely missed as a drinking companion by many.
· They don't rate freedom especially highly and their drinking habits are the most modest in our sample.· Voice over Whilst drinking habits and drinking houses have changed, the beer making process hasn't.· Patients of both groups were comparable in their ages and in their smoking and drinking habits.
· He spent the interval in full view of the enemy, drinking tea.· They sat inside, drinking tea from enormous enamel mugs.· Adam sat in his parents' house, drinking tea.· The audience sat in a warm honey glow, drinking tea and eating richly iced cake.· He asked not to be photographed drinking tea.· McLeish looked past the boy to see Catherine Crane, colour returned, seated on an upright chair, drinking tea.· Jack Firebrace and Arthur Shaw sat on the firestep smoking cigarettes and drinking tea.· Chosen her as she sat drinking tea and eating chocolate biscuits and enjoying her small triumph.
· Nor has he provided any evidence to support his belief that cholera is spread in drinking water.· And if our drinking water looked cloudy, we just let the tap run longer.· Often it can take a little while to melt down the pieces of ice to make drinking water.· Food and drinking water, Maggie thought.· Geoffrey Smith Fluoride is now added to drinking water to protect teeth.· This has also been found in drinking water, but is not seen as liable to be banned in the near future.· Some are added to the drinking water, others are given in the feed.· Even a horse's need for drinking water can become distorted.
· House-buying is rather like drinking wine.· We sat drinking wine and nibbling olives.· There was something slightly shocking about an old woman drinking wine alone in a bed-sitting room.· I don't start drinking wine until after I have had something to eat in case the alcohol affects my willpower!· Inside the castle sat the great Daybog and his noble guests, drinking wine from golden cups.· Pritchard, 37, admitted drinking wine at the school concert.
VERB· He was very sociable, and enjoyed eating, drinking and smoking.· Which did not cease to be full of visitors coming and going, eating and drinking.· They sat in silence, eating, drinking, two amiable and contented men.· All that idleness; eating too much; drinking too much; going to bed in the early hours of the morning.· We even hear of gods washing, walking, eating, drinking, being wounded and making love.· Boots said there was a message on the product about children cleaning their teeth after eating or drinking.· We spent the afternoon being entertained, eating, drinking and representing Chelmsford.· I am trying to get a sighting of them eating cornflakes and drinking twelve - fourteen - sixteen nineteen bottles of wine.
· They sat inside, drinking tea from enormous enamel mugs.· Vargas sat in the corner drinking coffee and reading a newspaper.· We rode into the Place St Michel and sat in a café drinking hot chocolate.· We sat drinking wine and nibbling olives.· Too flourishing, indeed, for the vicar, who objected to the time his bell-ringers sat drinking ale.· Our first stop was the Forge, where a bunch of Old-Timers sat drinking beer on the wooden porch.· Chosen her as she sat drinking tea and eating chocolate biscuits and enjoying her small triumph.· We sat drinking and talking together for a while.
· Also useful is regular exercise, taking adequate daily calcium and not smoking or drinking alcohol to excess.· Jack Firebrace and Arthur Shaw sat on the firestep smoking cigarettes and drinking tea.
· He started drinking 18 years ago.· He learnt from Izz that, of the other dairymaids, Retty had become ill, and Marian had started drinking.· Until they started drinking, I didn't have much of an impression of the Paisley students.· She wondered whether he'd started drinking again.· As a distraction he started gambling and drinking, spending so much on luxuries that he got into serious debt.· I don't start drinking wine until after I have had something to eat in case the alcohol affects my willpower!· Chemical seepage is starting to affect drinking water, 70 percent of which comes from underground sources.
· Almost all damage is, in the early stages, reversible provided people stop drinking alcohol.· Not much we can do, unless she stops drinking.· His decision to stop drinking, made two days ago, now seemed futile, a pathetic old man's gesture.· He had been told by the doctors that he would be dead within a year if he didn't stop drinking.· Already there may be an awareness that, once started, it is difficult to stop drinking.· Disputes about who's going to stop drinking and drive home don't help us go with the flow.· The significant point here is that, even when they stopped drinking, the impairment of memory remained.
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the activity of drinking alcohol: after a night of heavy drinking (=drinking a lot of alcohol)drinking companion/buddy/partner etc