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- noun informal the act of drinking cheaper take-away alcohol prior to drinking in more expensive clubs and bars.
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Examples
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Someone was pre-drinking on a Friday for their friend's birthday.
There, I Fixed It 2009
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You are presumably, then, unfamiliar with the usually Saturday evening practice of 'pre-drinking' which involves, basically, drinking.
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Or do you seek to form some sort of pre-drinking expectation based on the familiar?
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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I guess that's just to be expected when pre-drinking started around 7, we hit the first bar at 8, and didn't quit till around 3: 30.
Read It! j-ku 2008
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I went and bought a dozen doughnuts with part of my casino winnings, and we munched on those until it was 7 and we concluded it was no longer too early for our pre-drinking.
Good Riddance To Bad Rubbish emu-head 2008
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Or do you seek to form some sort of pre-drinking expectation based on the familiar?
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I witnessed my first game of beer pong while pre-drinking.
Read It! j-ku 2007
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May 1, 2007 at 3:30 pm he been pre-drinking… sigh…
GOTZ PARTY FAVORZ… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007
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Was at the Bowery tonight for the Futureheads show–went with some of the Transmission mag crew which meant tons of pre-drinking, which occurred, of course, before the during-show drinking and the subsequent after-show drinking.
Miss Misery Andy Greenwald 2006
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Was at the Bowery tonight for the Futureheads show–went with some of the Transmission mag crew which meant tons of pre-drinking, which occurred, of course, before the during-show drinking and the subsequent after-show drinking.
Miss Misery Andy Greenwald 2006
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