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drink
verb▶ drink eight cents
to drink to excess TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO- — Lise Winer, Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago, 2003
▶ drink from the furry cup
to perform oral sex on a woman UK
Probably coined by comedian Sacha Baron-Cohen (b.1970); his influence on late C20 UK slang is profound.- DRINKIN FROM THE FURRY CUP WHILE AT THE EARLY STAGES OF A RELASHUNSHIP U IZ PROBABLY UP FOR EATING FROM DE BUSHY PLATE. — Sacha Baron-Cohen, Da Gospel According to Ali G, 2001
▶ drink porridge
to serve a prison sentence UK
A figurative use of “drink” combined with PORRIDGEBut every time Club come to see him he was away, drinking porridge. — Diran Adebayo, My Once Upon A Time, p. 73, 2000▶ drink the Kool-Aid
to be persuaded, to follow blindly US
From the “Jonestown massacre”, 1978, a mass murder and suicide administered through the agency of cyanide in branded soft drink Flavor-Aid.- How long would people continue to drink the kool-ade [sic] of environmental pollution and tranquilized thinking? — John Caris, Reality Inspector, p. 112, 1982
- — Susie Dent, The Language Report, p. 83, 2003
- Don’t Drink the Kool Aid. When you’re trying to understand the business you’re working in, do not depend solely on sources inside your company — Karen Burns, The Amazing Adventures of Working Girl, 2009
▶ drink with the flies
to drink alone when at a public hotel or bar AUSTRALIA, 1911- “Here,” he said gently, “don’t let that joker drink with the flies.” Lasher, who was nearest to the man with the sling, turned, saw him and said: “Come ’n have one with us, sport.” — Eric Lambert, The Veterans, p. 15, 1954
- — Harvey E. Ward, Down Under Without Blunder, p. 38, 1967
- — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 32, 1977
▶ you would drink it through a shitey cloot
applied to anyone who appears to be so thirsty, or desperate, that no obstacle will hinder the taking of a drink UK: SCOTLAND Glasgow slang formed on “shitey” (faeces-covered) and Scottish dialect cloot (a hoof) or, more likely, clout (a rag).- — Michael Munro, The Complete Patter, 1996
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