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drink
noun- a bribe UK
- Euphemism for blackmail payment or money bribe. “There’s a drink in it for you” may mean there will be such payments; “Does he drink?” may mean “Is he willing to be bribed?” — David Powis, The Signs of Crime, 1977
- A “big drink” can be £20,000 or more; a “soppy drink” between £20 and £50 — The Observer, 15 August 1982
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 47, 1996
- The [the police] put it to him that for a little “drink”, as they called it–or “backhander” as anyone else would call it–they’d see to it that the club didn’t get in any trouble. — Dave Courtney, Raving Lunacy, p. 30, 2000
- a profit UK
- “Bit steep. Sharpen your pencil [reduce the price] a little?” Nah. Can’t be done. You can see the quality. I’m barely getting a drink out of it meself. — Colin Butts, Is Harry on the Boat?, p. 287, 1997
- a large body of water, especially an ocean US, 1832
- The guys I wanted to play with and listen to were all on the other side of the drink. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 198, 1946
- A clout in the chops is what they deserved after dropping their Austin-Healey in the drink last night[.] — Max Shulman, Anyone Got a Match?, p. 54, 1964
- [B]eing ditched in the drink by everything from dinghies to trans-Atlantic yachts. — The Guardian, 7 June 2003
- Gamma hydroxybutyrate, a pharmaceutical anaesthetic used for other than medical purposes NEW ZEALAND
- If “drink” was needed–street slang for GHB or Fantasy–Haarhaus could get it from Stanley Leone. — The New Zealand Herald, 8 August 2009
▶ in the drink
in pool, said of a cue ball that falls into a pocket US- — Steve Rushin, Pool Cool, p. 16, 1990
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