Search for crossword answers and clues

Answer for the clue "Have trouble passing the bar? ", 5 letters:
drink

Alternative clues for the word drink

Word definitions for drink in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drink \Drink\, v. t. To swallow (a liquid); to receive, as a fluid, into the stomach; to imbibe; as, to drink milk or water. There lies she with the blessed gods in bliss, There drinks the nectar with ambrosia mixed. --Spenser. The bowl of punch which was ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English drincan "to drink," also "to swallow up, engulf" (class III strong verb; past tense dranc , past participle druncen ), from Proto-Germanic *drenkan (cognates: Old Saxon drinkan , Old Frisian drinka , Dutch drinken , Old High German trinkan , ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. (context ambitransitive English) To consume (a liquid) through the mouth. Etymology 2 n. 1 A beverage. 2 A (served) alcoholic beverage. 3 The action of drinking, especially with the verbs ''take'' or ''have''. 4 A type of beverage (usually ...

Usage examples of drink.

For if so be it doth not, then may ye all abide at home, and eat of my meat, and drink of my cup, but little chided either for sloth or misdoing, even as it hath been aforetime.

Yet he abode with them long, and ate and drank amidst the hay with them till the moon shone brightly.

The same women that despised Sky Eyes, that gossiped about her and futilely forbade their sons to come near her, they came for abortifacients, joint easers, the silvery drink that brought one out of a dark mood, a dozen other things.

If he smoked too many cigarettes and drank too much absinth it was because he took civilization as he found it, and did the things that he found his civilized brothers doing.

I tasted blood as though I were already drinking it, and I felt the abysmal and desperate emptiness that I always feel before I feast.

There I drank it, my feet resting on acanthus, my eyes wandering from sea to mountain, or peering at little shells niched in the crumbling surface of the sacred stone.

As for drinking, I am something of a chemist and I have yet to find a liquor that is free from traces of a number of poisons, some of them deadly, such as fusel oil, acetic acid, ethylacetate, acetaldehyde and furfurol.

When there is great acidity of the stomach, which may be known by heart burn, saleratus may be taken in water, to neutralize it, but should not be drunk within an hour of the time for taking other medicines.

Now, Ferguson, to put your charges against Rochester in concrete form, you believe that he was insanely jealous of Jimmie Turnbull, that he recognized him in the Police Court in his burglar disguise, slipped a dose of aconitine in a glass of water which Turnbull drank, and after declaring that his friend had died from angina pectoris, disappeared.

He names the beverage Dopokoke and proceeds to make a fortune with it - the terrible punchline being that his own son becomes addicted to the drink and eventually dies.

Coca-Cola story, telling of a pharmacological tycoon who invents a soft drink containing a mysterious, addictive stimulant.

And as he rode along in that manner, taking frequent drinks, he did not think about any promises his master had made to him, and he did not consider it work but sheer pleasure to go around seeking adventures, no matter how dangerous they might be.

The image of his mother, her face when looking at his father while he sat at the kitchen table in the drinks that were between affable and drunk.

We paid with a sheaf of Afghanis, drank the tea his sweating assistant had brought, and parted from him on a wave of mutual good wishes.

I was especially happy whenever I was sent afield to take the place of some peasant shepherd who was ill or drunk or otherwise incapacitated, for I enjoyed being by myself in the green pastures, and the herding of sheep is no backbreaking job.