sink

sink

informal To drink (something, especially alcohol) very quickly. We went up to the bar and sank three shots of vodka apiece. You ought to slow down. You're going to get sick if you keep sinking pints like that.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

sink

tv. to swallow some food or drink. Larry stopped at a tavern to sink a short one.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • (one's) heart sinks into (one's) boots
  • a sinking feeling
  • a sinking ship
  • a/that sinking feeling
  • Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.
  • desert a sinking ship
  • deserting/leaving a sinking ship
  • enough (something) to sink a (battle)ship
  • enough to sink a ship
  • everything and the kitchen sink
  • everything but the kitchen sink
  • everything but/bar the kitchen sink
  • everything from soup to nuts
  • get (one's) teeth into (something)
  • get one’s teeth into something
  • get teeth into
  • get your teeth into something
  • get/sink your teeth into something
  • heart sinks
  • heart sinks, one's
  • kitchen-sink
  • kitchen-sink approach
  • kitchen-sink drama
  • leave a sinking ship
  • like rats abandoning a sinking ship
  • like rats deserting a sinking ship
  • like rats from a sinking ship
  • like rats leaving a sinking ship
  • loose lips sink ships
  • Rats abandon a sinking ship
  • rats desert a sinking ship
  • rats deserting a sinking ship
  • rats leave a sinking ship
  • sink
  • sink (one's) differences
  • sink (one's) teeth in
  • sink (one's) teeth into (something)
  • sink back
  • sink back into (something)
  • sink below
  • sink below (something)
  • sink down
  • sink in
  • sink into
  • sink into (someone or something)
  • sink into depression
  • sink into despair
  • sink into oblivion
  • sink like a stone
  • sink one’s teeth into something
  • sink one's teeth into
  • sink one's teeth into, to
  • sink or swim
  • sink so low
  • sink teeth into
  • sink the hook
  • sink through the floor
  • sink through the floor, to
  • sink to
  • sink to (someone's) level
  • sink to (something)
  • sink to new depths
  • sink to somebody's level
  • sink to such depths
  • sink under
  • sink under (something)
  • sink without (a) trace
  • sink without trace
  • sink your differences
  • sink, vanish, etc. without trace
  • sinking fast
  • sinking feeling
  • sinking feeling, a
  • sinking ship
  • with a heavy/sinking heart
  • your heart sinks
  • your heart sinks into your boots
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Initial energy of cluster head and mobile sink are 5 Joules and 10 Joules respectively.
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Then angle a 2x4 between the sink basins and the board.
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2.Salt watering the drain - Grease is another cause of foul odor in the sink. To remove the grease attached into the walls, heat a kettle of water to boiling while the baking soda and vinegar is bubbling in the drain.
Smelly sink solutions
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Do it yourself
It is designed to confuse visual rangefinding, making it difficult to hit and sink a ship with artillery.
The Great War ships that neever made it home; Thousands of people flocked to Cardiff Bay to see the Royal Navy's PS1bn Type 45 destroyer and the four other warships which visited the capital for the Nato summit. As part of our series of stories on World War I, we look at the ships that were lost due to enemy action in 1914 to 1918
Everything but the kitchen sink', we say when we've over–packed for holidays – meaning it is the last thing we need to take.
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A wireless sensor networkis composed of hundreds or thousands of distributed sensors that monitor their interesting surroundings and report sensed data to a static base station or sink through multihop relay.
LPTA: location predictive and time adaptive data gathering scheme with mobile sink for wireless sensor networks
A report released Thursday by geophysicists at Southern Methodist University says a 4,000-square-mile area near the "Wink Sinks" is showing signs of alarming instability.
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