drink

drink
   1. an intoxicant or to drink intoxicants
   The commonest euphemism for anything to do with intoxicants. Thus if a friend offers you a drink, you do not expect him to serve water.
   To like a drink is to have a perhaps modest alcoholic addiction. Drink taken or in drink mean intoxicated, as did the obsolete given to the drink:
    Some say she cocks her wee finger. In short that she's gien to the drink. (Barr, 1861)
   To have a drinking problem or drink too much is to be an alcoholic:
    ... her father had had a drinking problem. (Theroux, 1982 — he was not suffering from some restriction of the throat)
    He sometimes drank too much. (F. Harris, 1925)
   A non-drinker drinks only non-alcoholic drinks.
   And see drunk.
   2. a bribe or tip
   Given as such to save any embarrassment when handing over cash, but less explicit than the French pour-boire:
    'Has any money changed hands?' 'I dare say Jimmy was offered a 'drink' of some sort.' (Read, 1979)
   3. the sea
   Used by airmen when forced to put down on water, or in the drink.

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