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have a few en · VERB

Meanings

1. (colloquial) To drink enough alcohol to be slightly or moderately drunk.
   • "Are you drunk?" "I've had a few." "You sound drunk," Maria said. 1999 John Kaye, Stars Screaming, Atlantic Monthly Press, p119
   • I drink to be exciting. It seems I say the funniest things when I've had a few. 2004, Robert W. Wood, The Weeds of God, Omonomany, page 68:
   • 'Course, once he's had a few, the old man'll gab the hind leg off a donkey. 1983, Jaan Kross, The Rock from the Sky,, page 118:
   • The phone at the lake house rings and rings, until my father's voice, very groggy — it's the way he sounds once he's had a few — is finally heard. 2007, James D. McCallister, King's Highway, Screecher Creature, p28:

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Relateds

have a few too many

Synonyms

have a couple