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drink out en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (UK, obsolete, transitive) To finish a beverage; to empty a cup by drinking the contents.
    • Lift your glass and drink it out!
    • that was very odd ! that so much punch could be drank out already! 1807, Oliver Goldsmith, The Poems and Essays of Oliver Goldsmith, page 23:
    • Yes, ... then, drink out drink out the glass! 1890, Carl Millöcker, Der Arme Jonathan: Operette in drei Akten, page 8:
  2. (broadly, from eat out, intransitive, rare) To drink alcohol in a pub, bar, restaurant or other public establishment.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
drinks out Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
drunk out Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
drinking out Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
drank out Tense=Past lexicographic