drink
Noun
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A single serving of a beverage (synset 107901198)
"I asked for a hot drink"; "likes a drink before dinner"is a type of: helping, portion, serving - an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a mealsubtypes:
- chaser - a drink to follow immediately after another drink
- draft, draught, potation, tipple - a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg
- pledge, toast - a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event
- libation - (facetious) a serving of an alcoholic beverage
- eye opener - an alcoholic drink intended to wake one up early in the morning
- nightcap - an alcoholic drink taken at bedtime; often alcoholic
- hair of the dog - an alcoholic drink supposed to cure a hangover
- shandy, shandygaff - a drink made of beer and lemonade
- stirrup cup - a farewell drink (especially one offered to a horseman ready to depart); usually alcoholic
- sundowner - a drink taken at sundown
- posset - sweet spiced hot milk curdled with ale or beer
- sillabub, syllabub - spiced hot milk with rum or wine
- sangaree, sangria - sweetened red wine and orange or lemon juice with soda water
- whiskey neat, whisky neat - a drink consisting of whiskey without a mixer
- whiskey on the rocks, whisky on the rocks - whiskey with ice
- float, ice-cream float, ice-cream soda - a drink with ice cream floating in it
- milk shake, milkshake, shake - frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream
- frappe - liqueur poured over shaved ice
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The act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess (synset 100749813)
"drink was his downfall"is a type of: intemperance, intemperateness - consumption of alcoholic drinkssubtypes: drinking bout - a long period of drinking
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Any liquid suitable for drinking (synset 107897775)
"may I take your beverage order?"is a type of:subtypes:
- milk - a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings
- wish-wash - any thin watery drink
- potion - a medicinal or magical or poisonous beverage
- alcohol, alcoholic beverage, alcoholic drink, inebriant, intoxicant - a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent
- hydromel - honey diluted in water; becomes mead when fermented
- oenomel - wine mixed with honey
- near beer - drink that resembles beer but with less than 1/2 percent alcohol
- ginger beer - carbonated slightly alcoholic drink flavored with fermented ginger
- mixer - club soda or fruit juice used to mix with alcohol
- cooler - an iced drink especially white wine and fruit juice
- refresher - a drink that refreshes
- smoothie - a thick smooth drink consisting of fresh fruit pureed with ice cream or yoghurt or milk
- fizz - an effervescent beverage (usually alcoholic)
- cider, cyder - a beverage made from juice pressed from apples
- chocolate, cocoa, drinking chocolate, hot chocolate - a beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot
- fruit crush, fruit juice - drink produced by squeezing or crushing fruit
- ade, fruit drink - a sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice
- mate - South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate
- soft drink - nonalcoholic beverage (usually carbonated)
- coffee, java - a beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans
- tea - a beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water
- tea-like drink - a beverage that resembles tea but is not made from tea leaves
- drinking water - water suitable for drinking
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Any large deep body of water (synset 109293414)
"he jumped into the drink and had to be rescued"domain usage: colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speechis a type of: body of water, water - the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean)
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The act of swallowing (synset 100841439)
"one swallow of the liquid was enough"; "he took a drink of his beer and smacked his lips"is a type of: consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake - the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)subtypes:same as: deglutition, swallow
Verb
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Take in liquids (synset 201172332)
"The patient must drink several liters each day"; "The children like to drink soda"subtypes:
- swill, swill down - drink large quantities of (liquid, especially alcoholic drink)
- suck - draw into the mouth by creating a practical vacuum in the mouth
- guggle, gurgle - drink from a flask with a gurgling sound
- sip - drink in sips
- guzzle - drink greedily or as if with great thirst
- lap, lap up, lick - take up with the tongue
- drain the cup, drink up - drink to the last drop
- gulp, quaff, swig - to swallow hurriedly or greedily or in one draught
- belt down, bolt down, down, drink down, kill, pop, pour down, toss off - drink down entirely
same as: imbibe -
Consume alcohol (synset 201173463)
"We were up drinking all night"subtypes:
- tank - consume excessive amounts of alcohol
- port - drink port
- claret - drink claret
- bar hop, pub-crawl - go from one pub to the next and get progressively more drunk
- bib, tipple - drink moderately but regularly
- hit it up, inebriate, soak, souse - become drunk or drink excessively
- wine - drink wine
- carry, hold - drink alcohol without showing ill effects
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Propose a toast to (synset 201177764)
"Let us toast the birthday girl!"; "Let's drink to the New Year"subtypes: give - propose
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Be fascinated or spell-bound by;
Pay close attention to (synset 200739010)"The mother drinks in every word of her son on the stage"same as: drink in -
Drink excessive amounts of alcohol;
Be an alcoholic (synset 201174572)"The husband drinks and beats his wife"same as: tope
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