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Hit the bottle
Answer for the clue "Hit the bottle ", 5 letters:
booze
Alternative clues for the word booze
Word definitions for booze in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context slang English) Any alcoholic beverage. vb. (context slang English) To drink alcohol.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
by 1821, perhaps 1714; probably originally as a verb, "to drink a lot" (1768), variant of Middle English bouse (c.1300), from Middle Dutch busen "to drink heavily," related to Middle High German bus (intransitive) "to swell, inflate," of unknown origin. ...
Usage examples of booze.
Empty shelves made of inch-thick glass awaited their future stock of booze bottles and glassware.
Selling the fancy booze and special wines at a five hundred percent profit per bottle, he soon had plenty of dough to flash and invested it in staking out a piece of territory to build his club.
There was so much booze flowing that if anyone did see or rather not seesomething odd about me, they might put it down to one too many drinks.
I got the taste of booze, cigarettes, and tongue, lots of enthusiastic tongue.
She gulped her drink straight down, using the booze to quench her thirst, which is not the way to treat the stuff, but I had reason to keep her happy.
Her first defense would be a return to something familiar and comforting: booze or a man.
Rita now used their cabinet to store her booze, the books overlooked and forgotten in the back.
In a surprisingly short time I had all the money out and the books back in place on the shelf with the booze bottles in front as before.
Chevy Out back, booze empties on the seat: probation violation number one.
The arrival of the booze cart gave him a little more time to put off the effort.
He was very aware that he was pouring booze into himself to fill a yawning psychological emptiness.
Me, I lolloped and leapt for my life at the other end, 200 pounds of yob genes, booze, snout and fast food, ten years older, charred and choked on heavy fuel, with no more to offer than my block drive and backhand chip.
Jesus, have they got a lot of booze in here, and a lot of it is bottom-line tubs of Nigerian sherry, quarts of Alaskan port.
By now I am a crackling sorcerer of grub and booze, of philtres and sex-spells.
Anyway, after a while, during that sun-bleached, snowblind vigil of booze and lies and pornography, the girls tended to mangle and dismember in my mind.