Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. Past tense of drink.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Preterit (and often past participle) of drink.
Wiktionary
- n. slang dextromethorphan
- n. slang a drink, usually alcoholic
- v. Simple past of drink.
- n. UK, dialect Wild oats, or darnel grass.
GNU Webster's 1913
Etymologies
- Compare drake. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“And as we drank, and I drank, for the first time, I * drank*.”
“Then the princess raised the basin, and stooped her mouth to it and drank the water, spilling a few drops, and so she _drank the moon_ and the knowledge of the moon.”
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“Instead, they drank from the poisoned chalice, picked the Bob Rubin brigade to run economic policy, and are going to face in 2011-2 the five year resets on the worst of the loan years.”
“He drank from the skulls of his enemies, roared with laughter in the face of death; danced naked in the moonlight.”
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“By the way, Anónimo, the agua fresca that you drank is guanabana.”
“So Martin drank, in his easy way, to show that he was good friends with the house, and then went supperless to bed.”
“Martin drank with them, and began to feel really human once more.”
“They ate out of the same plate and drank from the same cup.”
“Both Maria and Martin drank the sour new wine on empty stomachs, and it went swiftly to their heads.”
“Martin drank on silently, biting out his orders and invitations and awing the barkeeper, an effeminate country youngster with watery blue eyes and hair parted in the middle.”
Lists
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The Jumblies
They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
In a Sieve they went to sea:
In spite of all their friends could say,
On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,
In a Sieve they went to...sieve, winter, morn, stormy, round, drowned, cried, aloud, button, fig, sea, far and 113 more...
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Tunie: Navigator
by the Pogues, on the LP "Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash." Lyrics copyright 1985 P. Gaston (according to the Pogues website).
The canals and the bridges, the embankments and cuts,
The...railway, darkness, empire, supply, fortunes, vast, commerce, laid, mark, sleep, peace, death and 34 more...
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Tunie: One Last Drink
By T. Lewington, as performed by Enter the Haggis, on their CD "Soapbox Heroes."
I've had a life that's full
Everyone's been good to me
So fire up that fiddle, boy,
A...world was mine, trace, drank, end, funeral, friends, room, departed, glass, raise, eye, never and 20 more...
Tweets
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dontcry Which -- I saw the Drank thing earlier today while surfing. Too much! The video in this link is hysterical! Thanks!
Jun 5, 2008
whichbe The Anti-Energy Drink Jun 5, 2008