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- noun UK
Alcoholic beverage . - verb UK To
drink (alcohol).
Etymologies
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Examples
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We were brought up into football having a bevvy, enjoying ourselves, we were out three or four times a week.
Dominic Matteo 2011
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The patchwork quilt of same-sex marital regulation has led to a bevvy of messy legal conundrums, the worst of which is what to do with the partnerships from states that led the way to allowing legal partnerships to be formed.
Frederick Hertz: New York Courts are Open for Civil Union Divorces Frederick Hertz 2011
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Mike Welch, alongside a bevvy of Hollywood talent from entertainment legends like Ed Asner to relative newcomers like Katherine McPhee are lending their talent to the emotional and touching play 110 Stories.
Twilight Lexicon » Mike Welch to Appear in Play to Benefit Red Cross 2010
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This is a proper bar where you can go and have a bevvy and a dance and a laugh with your mates.
Dominic Matteo 2011
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The patchwork quilt of same-sex marital regulation has led to a bevvy of messy legal conundrums, the worst of which is what to do with the partnerships from states that led the way to allowing legal partnerships to be formed.
Frederick Hertz: New York Courts are Open for Civil Union Divorces Frederick Hertz 2011
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He died early in February 1980 after a bevvy session of Commonwealth proportions… but not before he bequeathed to us a mighty and inspirational body of work that speaks to ordinary people everywhere.
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Nevertheless, serious social drinking can unite communities and so there would be a monthly bevvy session where everyone can get to know each other and let their hair down.
If we buy Taransay, we can save the Union | Kevin McKenna 2011
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To guarantee it as my focal point, we decide to fill the boat with a bevvy of bikini-clad women.
Joseph Satto: I Don't Regret Losing My Surfing Virginity To The Maldives Joseph Satto 2011
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Barry Ferguson, the former Scotland captain and one of Rangers' finest postwar midfielders, was hounded out of his country for the despicable crime of getting howling with the bevvy after a demoralising international defeat and then making a rude gesture to press photographers.
Think Diouf is vile? Listen to the fans | Kevin McKenna 2011
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Reminiscent – at least after a bevvy – of EnglandNewOrder's 1990 classic World In Motion, Jackson's Mikey Matteo-produced clubby stomper even conjures up the spirit of that record's (in) famous John Barnes rap.
vanishedone commented on the word bevvy
A drink, esp. beer; or, to drink - OED. Not to be confused with bevy.
October 18, 2008