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crook one's elbow en · VERB
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(US, slang) To consume alcoholic drink.
Once a top-hand cowboy was leaning over the mahogany of a watering hole between cattle drives, merrily crooking his elbow and painting his nose and watching his trail pay melt away, drink by drink.
2011, Richard Bird Baker, Corral Dust from Across the Big Divide:His first drink went over in a gulp and Jol had the second ready for him when he set down the empty glass. Just as Nord was crooking his elbow on the second drink, a small, rat-faced man sidled up to him at the bar.
1950, Wonders of the Spaceways, numbers 1-6, page 30:
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