Definitions
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of one who drinks; the act of imbibing.
- n. The practice of partaking to excess of intoxicating liquors.
- n. An entertainment with liquors; a carousal.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess
- n. the act of consuming liquids
Examples
“Intemperate drinking is ever the result of what has been misnamed _temperate drinking_.”
“I'd like to discuss in this article the way you "think yourself into drinking" -- what I call "drinking thinking.”
The Huffington Post: Robert Leahy, Ph.D.: 8 Illusions About Needing A Drink
“We see where his drinking is at, he tells Megan, "I need a favor, make sure I don't over do it," which means, "stop me at 3.”
The Huffington Post: Samantha Zalaznick: Mad Men Recap: Welcome to My World
“NIAAA officials say that in recognizing a drinking problem, the label "alcoholic" is less important than harmful patterns of drinking, which they describe as drinking too much, too fast or too much, too often”
“All drinkers begin socially, and this drinking is accompanied by a thousand social connotations such as I have described out of my own experience in the first part of this narrative.”
“Falling crime eh and 24 hr drinking is a total success?”
“During the procession the famous Tract Sicut cervus is sung, the beginning of Psalm 41, which gave rise to the widespread custom of decorating baptisteries with images of deer drinking from a fountain.”
“If a powerplant draws in water for cooling, it isn't "used" in the same sense that water for agriculture or drinking is used.”
Water Usage, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“These support programs (like the continuing US dairy support programs) were made possible only because milk for drinking is not a highly tradeable product and the industry enjoyed much-higher-than-average protection from import competition.”
Rent and Rent-Seeking, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘drinking’.
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
wrath, leaf, belly, prey, death, break, six, nod, dim, end, inn, judge and 1286 more...
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Fauvism
Words to describe art of the fauvist movement
wild, beast, color, fauve, fauvism, fauvist, avant garde, floating, violent, outrageous, radical, dynamite and 82 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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1906 Railway Cipher Code
Terms from the Standard Cipher Code of the American Railway Association, 1906. The terms were shorthand for common phrases used in telegraphic communications between station agents and Railway Asso...
abetting, abdominal, abiology, ablative, abnormal, abominate, aboveboard, abrasive, absinth, abstinent, accursed, acetate and 212 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o..., abject,utterly ho... and 2228 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., dispensing of all..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o... and 2229 more...
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A few of my favorite definitions from...
I'm especially fond of ones written by Charles Sanders Peirce.
theodolite, illusion, buckie, frank, abstract-concrete, semidiagrammatic, object-object, vortex-filament, dod, parrock, cobler, weather-box and 354 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., dispensing of all..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o... and 2229 more...
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Dirgie: I See a Darkness
Well you're my friend
(it's what you told me)
and can you see
(what's inside of me).
Many times
we've been out drinking
and many times
we've shared our tho...friend, drinking, shared, thoughts, everyone, opposition, dreadful, imposition, blacking, darkness, hope, somehow and 12 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for drinking.
hernesheir "Cannot do it without", in the shorthand jargon of railroad telegraphers. --US Railway Association, Standard Cipher Code, 1906, p.205. Jan 22, 2013
ruzuzu "3. An entertainment with liquors; a carousal."
--Century Dictionary Sep 29, 2010