HIT THE BOTTLE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Consume alcohol

Example:

We were up drinking all night

Synonyms:

booze; drink; fuddle; hit the bottle

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Hypernyms (to "hit the bottle" is one way to...):

consume; have; ingest; take; take in (serve oneself to, or consume regularly)

Verb group:

drink; tope (drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hit the bottle"):

tank (consume excessive amounts of alcohol)

port (drink port)

claret (drink claret)

bar hop; pub-crawl (go from one pub to the next and get progressively more drunk)

bib; tipple (drink moderately but regularly)

hit it up; inebriate; soak; souse (become drunk or drink excessively)

wine (drink wine)

carry; hold (drink alcohol without showing ill effects)

Sentence frame:

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