drinknoun [ C or U ]
uk/drɪŋk/us/drɪŋk/drink noun [ C or U ] (LIQUID)
A1 (an amount of) liquid that is taken into the body through the mouth:
Would you like a drink of water/tea/juice?
They'd had no food or drink for two days.
More examples
- I like to have a hot drink at bedtime.
- In hot weather, shops do a brisk trade in cold drinks and ice creams.
- I don't let the children have sweet fizzy drinks.
- I think apple juice is your favourite drink, isn't it?
- The table tipped and all our drinks fell on the floor.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Drinks - general words
- beverage
- caffeinated
- carbonated
- chaser
- cooler
- drop
- fizzy
- flat
- gassy
- glass
- gulp
- hospitality
- ice cube
- iced
- nectar
- rock
- thirst-quenching
- top-up
- weak
- witches' brew
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drink noun [ C or U ] (ALCOHOL)
A2 alcoholic liquid:
Do we have time for a quick drink?
Whose turn is it to buy the drinks?
UK We ran out of drink at the party.
drinks [ plural ]
a party at which you have drinks, especially alcoholic drinks:
Come for drinks on Saturday.
UK We're having a small drinks party for one of our colleagues who's leaving next week.
More examples
- "I've bought you a drink." "Cheers, mate."
- We can't get a drink! It's after (pub) closing time.
- I won't have another drink, thanks. I need to have a clear head for my meeting in the morning.
- We could go for a drink after work tomorrow, if you like.
- He has some information I want, so I'm going to try to coax it out of him over a drink.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Alcohol - general words
- alcopop
- Angostura
- aperitif
- bevvy
- booze
- libation
- liquid lunch
- liquor
- long drink
- low-alcohol
- nip
- sake 1
- sauce
- slug
- sly grog
- snifter
- something
- something a little stronger idiom
- stiff
- tequila
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Idiom(s)
take to drink
drinkverb
uk/drɪŋk/us/drɪŋk/drank, drunkdrink verb (LIQUID)
A1 [ I or T ] to take liquid into the body through the mouth:
He drank three glasses of water.
The animals came down to the waterhole to drink.
More examples
- If I drink too much coffee, I can't sleep.
- You'll dehydrate very quickly in this heat, if you don't drink lots of water.
- It's strange how drinking a lot of water can often make you feel thirsty.
- She drank two whole glassfuls of orange juice.
- I love milk - I drink gallons of the stuff.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Drinking
- consume
- drank
- drink (sth) up
- drinker
- drinking
- drinking fountain
- drinking water
- drunk
- knock back (sth)
- overindulge
- partake
- partook
- put sth back
- sup
- swig
- swill
- taste
- wash
- wash sth down
- water fountain
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drink verb (ALCOHOL)
A2 [ I ] to drink alcohol:
"Would you like a glass of wine?" "No thanks, I don't drink."
I didn't drink at all while I was pregnant.
More examples
- It's a classic case of the bored-housewife syndrome - she's got nothing to do all day except drink and go shopping.
- I'm a social drinker - I only drink when I'm with other people.
- You look a bit rough - how much did you have to drink last night?
- He drank himself to death.
- He drank, womanized and wasted money.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Drinking alcohol
- after hours idiom
- bender
- binge drinking
- booze
- booze-up
- drinking-up time
- drown your sorrows idiom
- Dutch courage
- happy hour
- hatch
- here
- mud
- out of hours idiom
- piss-up
- poison
- pub crawl
- put sth back
- same
- shout
- spike
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Idiom(s)
drink like a fish
drink sb under the table
Phrasal verb(s)
drink sth in
drink to sth
drink (sth) up