spunge

sponge

and spunge
1. in. to drink heavily. She was sponging like there was no tomorrow.
2. n. a drunkard; a tippler. (see also blotter.) She was a spunge, and she wasn’t going to do anything about it.
3. n. a parasitic person. Here comes that sponge, Willy. Hide your wallet, pencils, glasses, and any clothes in his size.

spunge

verb
See sponge
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • a change of heart
  • appear to
  • a mystery to (one)
  • a turn of phrase
  • able to do
  • able to do it
  • a shoulder to cry on
  • a piece of the action
  • a piece/slice of the action
  • bit of the action
References in periodicals archive
They will be joined by other groups like Hundred Reasons, Spunge and Seafood.
The top 10 from Liverpool HMV this week is: 1 Dove (I'll Be Loving You) - Moony 2 Blurry - Puddle of Mudd 3 Light My Fire - Will Young 4 Without Me - Eminem 5 Sweetness - Jimmy Eat World 6 Be Cool - Paffendorf 7 Hella Good - No Doubt 8 We're On The Ball - Ant and Dec 9 Jump On Demand - Spunge 10 Stop Playing Guitar - Promise Ring Win a chart album of your choice by telling me the name of the lead singer of No Doubt.
Delany and Helsham when he writes of his two companions to Lord Orrery only three weeks before the 6 August letter we have been studying: "If there be any merry company in this Town, I am an utter stranger to the Persons and Places; except when half a score come to spunge on me every Sunday evenings.
hee is a meere spunge; nothing but humours and observation; he goes vp and downe sucking from euery society, and when hee comes home squeazes himself dry.
Demetrius attacks Horace as an imitator, a "spunge" sucking up words and ideas everywhere he goes, which is precisely the charge Jonson levels against both Marston and Dekker.
Other than A, Hundred Reasons, Face to Face and Spunge, the frenetic threepiece have managed to attract the services of punk's iconic godfather Iggy Pop, inset, as their major support act, exciting the pants off many 30 and 40somethings who can still remember buying their first Stooges long player.
US post-grunge outfit Spunge make their T-debut with their fiery Detroit energy- fuelled rock.
THE leading lights of the British ska-punk scene, Spunge unleash their energetic sound on the listening world.
No Doubt Hella Good, Rob Dougan Clubbed To Death, Wyclef Two Wrongs (Don't Make A Right), Jimmy Eat World Sweetness, Fallacy & Fusion The Groundbreaker, Crackout I Am The One, Fragma Embrace Me, Agnelli & Nelson Everyday, Lightning Seeds featuring Baddiel & Skinner Three Lions 2002, The Libertines What A Waster/I Get Along, Spunge Jump On Demand, Cinerama Quick Before It Melts.
Spunge at Middlesbrough Town Hall Crypt, reviewed by MARTIN NEAL
The aim is to play the sort of heavy music shunned in clubland, from Papa Roach and Limp Bizkit to Spunge - launching on Wednesday.
Euphoria have been touring with headliners Spunge for at least 10 of their 30 gigs nationwide, and one of the reasons for this may be that they made Spunge look even better.
Before getting into festival mode on Sunday on the Deconstruction stage at Donington's Download, Tewkesbury ska-punk heroes Spunge have a warm-up show at Middlesbrough's Town Hall Crypt tonight.
When he attempts to stone Eugenius, for instance, the rocks become "soft as spunges," forcing the king to call for "[n]ew studied tortures" that will somehow succeed where other torments have failed (F4v).
Among the toiletries ranged before her (or him) since, in the 18th century men were heavily painted) were floral waters, essences of this and that, paints including those made from lead which could lead to an early death, aromatic vinegar, patches in black velvet and silver (of course) and "spunges" used for underarm, and oral hygiene and of course elsewhere.