sluice one's bolt en · VERB
Meanings
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(UK, obsolete, slang) To drink alcohol.
When his heart has been the least thing warmed with sluicing his bolt and cocking his broseley, he has told us strange stories of foreign countries, so that even old Zingary has turned up the whites of his eyes.
1845, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of London:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| sluices one's bolt | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| sluiced one's bolt | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| sluiced one's bolt | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| sluicing one's bolt | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |