What does drink mean

Crossword clues for drink

drink

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

drink

I.verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a drink of water

▪ He asked for a drink of water.

a drinking companion (=someone you go out with to drink alcohol)

▪ George was out again with his drinking companions.

a drinks cupboardBritish English (= for drinks, especially alcoholic ones)

▪ He went to the drinks cupboard and poured a whisky.

a drunken/drunk driver (=who has drunk too much alcohol)

▪ Her husband was killed by a drunken driver.

binge drinking

▪ Binge drinking is an increasing problem among young people.

Could I interest you in a drink/dessert etc? (=used as a polite way of offering someone a drink etc)

dead drunk

▪ He came home dead drunk in the middle of the night.

drink coffee

▪ I don’t often drink coffee.

drink milk

▪ Drinking milk keeps your bones strong.

drink tea

▪ Susan sank into her chair and drank her tea.

drinking chocolate

drinking fountain

drinking water (=water that you can drink safely)

▪ There is no source of drinking water on the island.

drinking water

drinks machine

drinks party

drink/smoke heavily

▪ Paul was drinking heavily by then.

drive sb to drink (=make someone so annoyed or upset that they depend on alcohol)

▪ His problems had almost driven him to drink.

drunk and disorderly

▪ Bell denied being drunk and disorderly.

drunk driving

drunk tank

eat/drink soup

▪ We chatted as we ate our spinach soup.

eating/drinking habits (=the kinds of things you eat or drink regularly)

▪ You need to change your eating habits.

excessive drinking (=drinking too much alcohol)

▪ Your excessive drinking has to stop.

fixed...drink

▪ Terry fixed herself a cold drink and sat out on the balcony.

good to eat/drink

▪ They have to learn which wild foods are good to eat.

Heavy drinking

▪ Heavy drinking during pregnancy can damage your baby.

hopeless romantic/materialist/drunk etc

▪ She was a hopeless romantic, always convinced that one day she would meet the man of her dreams.

invite...for a drink

▪ Why don’t you invite her for a drink at the club one evening?

isotonic drink

owe sb a drink/letter etc

▪ I owe Shaun a letter; I must write soon.

pour...drink

▪ Why don’t you pour yourself another drink?

safe to use/drink/eat etc

▪ The water is treated to make it safe to drink.

soft drink

turn to drink/crime/drugs etc

▪ addicts who turn to crime to finance their habit

under the influence of alcohol/drink/drugs etc

▪ He was accused of driving while under the influence of alcohol.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

heavily

▪ I felt them, if I was in the same position, I would probably drink heavily as well.

▪ They drank heavily and talked loudly.

▪ Although I used to enjoy a drink, I started really drinking heavily after he died.

▪ They report he appears to be drinking heavily, and occasionally shows up plastered at the office.

▪ Our sole companion had been drinking heavily, with inevitable consequences.

▪ What was becoming evident was that he was drinking heavily.

▪ He drinks heavily the night before his death and retires to his bed chamber.

▪ It was just too painful, for as she later told George Putnam, Bill Stultz spent the day drinking heavily.

never

▪ And what really annoyed me was that he never drank and certainly didn't go a bundle on gambling.

▪ They are never drunk one day and good for nothing the next.

▪ I never drink anything out of a can and hardly ever eat anything tinned, either.

▪ He never drank alcohol, coffee or tea, since he deplored the consumption of substances that have mind-altering qualities.

▪ Len wasn't there, and the man who was would never drink a cup of tea again.

▪ There were followers of Dionysus who never drank wine at all.

▪ Well, she'd certainly learned one lesson from last night - she'd never drink again!

▪ Her beauty and her talk still attracted anyone she wished for company, and she never drank when she painted.

■ NOUN

alcohol

▪ I also smoke, but at least I don't drink much alcohol.

▪ The President, who drinks very little alcohol, sipped his favorite cocktail, a weak orange blossom.

▪ Fred craves meat, smokes but doesn't drink alcohol.

▪ The volunteers who drank alcohol contracted fewer colds during the study period than did the volunteers who drank no alcohol.

▪ He never drank alcohol, coffee or tea, since he deplored the consumption of substances that have mind-altering qualities.

▪ It may be added, of course, that most of those who drink alcohol do not commit offences of violence thereafter.

▪ There are also mice that become energized and active after drinking alcohol, and their opposites that become lethargic.

beer

▪ Stalin sat at the table, drinking a can of beer.

▪ Quit your whining and drink another beer.

▪ Roberts told the police that he had drunk five cans of beer.

▪ We built a great fire in the outdoor fireplace and roasted the steak, drank the beer, and talked.

▪ Jed could see them from the car, drinking beers and swapping jokes.

▪ During the season, Favre appealed to the league, requesting the chance to drink a beer or two after a game.

bottle

▪ It was not unusual for him, unaided, to drink two bottles of wine in as many hours.

▪ Meanwhile, he was passed out in his room, having drunk an entire bottle of Scotch alone.

▪ They ate out there too and drank one of the bottles of wine they had brought.

▪ Into the picture walked a man drinking from a quart bottle of beer partially concealed in a brown paper bag.

▪ Tam drank, lowered the bottle, and examined the contents.

▪ She drank from bottles hidden in the bathroom, in the closet, or under the bed.

▪ They drank the whole bottle in perfect accord.

▪ She was sitting at her desk in the living room, fiddling with a pencil and drinking from a bottle of beer.

coffee

▪ I no longer drank black coffee nor smoked, so I could only chew my almonds and sip my herb tea.

▪ A man sitting in his undershirt, drinking coffee, said yes, they had a bed.

▪ We drank evening coffee with them.

▪ In stern parental terms he told Uncle Allen he would ruin his health by drinking coffee.

▪ They sat there drinking coffee and looking at the Glovers with detached interest.

▪ I ate my roll and drank my coffee while all sorts of anxieties roiled in my brain.

▪ Then there was a long pause during which Sophie drank her coffee and avoided looking at her companion.

▪ She drank the burned coffee as she waited for the Percodan to take.

cup

▪ The prison doctor refused unless she agreed to drink a cup of tea and eat a piece of bread and butter.

▪ Peter routinely drank four or five cups of coffee before a round and he flew around the course.

▪ She drank from a cup so transparently delicate that its contents could be seen right through the patterned china.

▪ We stretch out our tired legs and drink cups of tea we have brought up from the pantry.

▪ Out of interest I drank a cup of coffee and watched the pulse zoom up.

▪ She was just drinking a second cup of coffee when Julius walked through the doorway.

▪ It is said that pregnant women were assured a smooth delivery when they drank from his cup, hence his patronage.

glass

▪ Adam decided to hold back Miranda's bombshell until later, after Elinor drank her evening glass of champagne.

▪ The lowest death rate was among people who drank 2-5 glasses of beer a day.

▪ After I drank my second glass of blackberry wine, I was no longer angry at Polly for coming home.

▪ We drank claret out of large glasses.

▪ Of course, if you drink two glasses, double the number of units shown.

▪ Some nights she drank three glasses of wine.

▪ Apart from the single ecstasy dose, she believed she had drunk only a glass of wine that night.

health

▪ They filed up the hill in the moonlight and danced solemnly around it, then kneeled and drank to their eternal health.

lot

▪ They didn't know that if you have ecstasy you should drink a lot of water because of the risk of heat exhaustion.

▪ I drink a lot of coffee in the morning.

▪ He had been drinking a lot of beer, but he says he heard cries.

▪ Me and Albert, we used to like to drink a lot.

▪ He drank a lot of milk.

▪ I started drinking a lot more water and I ate more fish.

▪ She drank a lot of wine for a small girl, and enjoyed it.

▪ I drink a lot of water or else I would snack a lot.

milk

▪ They were in the kitchen, where Hannele had been drinking milk when he returned.

▪ It may be black or green tea flavoured with jasmine flowers, is very fragrant and is always drunk without milk.

▪ They drank powdered milk instead of fresh.

▪ I was frequently sick through being forced to drink rancid milk that had been left standing in the playground for hours.

▪ It was with great difficulty that they were able to coax him to drink a little milk.

▪ This is hardly surprising, bearing in mind that no other adult animal naturally drinks milk.

▪ I tell my son to drink his milk.

pint

▪ Apparently, he drinks two pints of milk and, as soon as he feels drowsy, he drinks two pints of orange juice.

▪ Petersburg Times, drank a pint of gin a day.

▪ Apparently, he drinks two pints of milk and, as soon as he feels drowsy, he drinks two pints of orange juice.

▪ He said he had drunk eight to 10 pints of lager and some vodka and tonic, the court was told.

▪ On a Friday night he would drink a pint of lemonade at the bar.

▪ One member of the team must drink a pint of beer at the start and consume another four on the way.

▪ The court was told the airman had drunk seventeen pints of beer.

▪ Alcoholic Geoffrey Frederick Gregory was drinking up to 12 pints a day back in 1979.

tea

▪ Well, I've drunk my tea now.

▪ He always drank tea in the morning, and she, suffering from an ulcer, always drank hot chocolate.

▪ We sat by the dining-room fire drinking our hot tea.

▪ We stretch out our tired legs and drink cups of tea we have brought up from the pantry.

▪ She went downstairs, and sat cold and lonely in the kitchen, drinking hot tea.

▪ Nearly everyone, however, even on casual Friday, is drinking soda or tea during the lunch hour.

▪ After dinner he sat down beside the fire and drank his tea.

▪ These new findings about caffeine explain some of the ordinary experiences of drinking coffee, tea, and other caffeinated beverages.

water

▪ They gave him fortified water to drink.

▪ He could sail this water drunk and blindfolded.

▪ For instance, Oggie puts one or both feet into his water bowl when he drinks.

▪ But indeed he had used all his water, including his drinking supply, and had no food.

▪ The ant had brought him water and as he drank the ant spoke of Urizen and Lucifer.

▪ Wine was carefully mixed with water, because drinking undiluted wine was considered barbaric.

▪ And taking a bath in very hot water after you drink it.

wine

▪ Next evening, I was drinking his wine.

▪ I drink red wine and heat a pita bread on the gas burner and wrap it around alfalfa sprouts or green linguine.

▪ Take a little tour in our beautiful country - sit in the sunshine - drink some wine.

▪ There was nobody telling us what to do; nobody sitting around drinking palm wine and demanding dinner.

▪ She'd drunk plenty of wine before, for heaven's sake.

▪ The old man was drinking wine.

▪ As we drank our wine, Pumblechook reminded me of the happy times he and I had spent together during my childhood.

▪ To see a starvIng man eating lobster salad and drinking Rhine wine, barefooted and in tatters, was curious.

■ VERB

eat

▪ How can we eat and drink when our poor brothers starve?

▪ I ate my roll and drank my coffee while all sorts of anxieties roiled in my brain.

▪ They all ate and drank, and celebrated the end of the sheep-shearing by singing their favourite songs.

▪ We don't know how he died, but presumably it was something he ate or drank.

▪ The others we decided to eat and drink ourselves.

▪ If that were so, no one would ever eat or drink to excess.

▪ The hostesses keep a record of what they eat, and the drinking is easily accounted for.

like

▪ Mum is a fire sign and water just puts her right out-she doesn't even like to drink it.

▪ Me and Albert, we used to like to drink a lot.

▪ World champions took matches much less frequently and in between Lynch liked to drink.

▪ Don Casey likes to drink espresso and talk politics.

▪ Nowadays he liked nothing better than drinking rather too much with journalists, and chewing the fat.

▪ Florence liked to drink and laugh as Margarett did, and eventually the two became lovers.

▪ He asked what they would like to drink and they asked for coffee, declining his offer of liqueurs.

▪ What would you like to drink?

sit

▪ They sat there drinking coffee and looking at the Glovers with detached interest.

▪ For the most part, its patrons sat silently and drank darkly.

▪ Dave Henderson, general manager of both magazines explained: People think we sit around drinking Jack Daniel's all day.

▪ We sat there and drank the wine.

▪ Amanda came back wearing a tee-shirt and black leggings, made herself a large gin and tonic, sat down and drank.

▪ He sat drinking, trying to writhe free.

▪ We sat and drank before a smouldering fire while he conversed.

▪ The three of us sat down to drink our coffee.

smoke

▪ None of the New College group are chain-#smoking or drinking coffee, but there is still an authentic atmosphere.

▪ Similarly, parents instruct their children not to smoke or drink, yet the parents may engage in those activities themselves.

▪ During the test periods subjects were instructed not to smoke or eat anything but drank water ad libitum.

▪ I lived on fast food, I smoked, I drank, I did drugs.

▪ He smokes and he drinks a lot of beer.

▪ Subjects who normally smoked or drank were allowed to continue doing so throughout their quarantine.

▪ Parker smoked and drank his beer and it was not nearly so bad as he had first supposed.

▪ Men also smoke more, drink more, and take more life-threatening risks.

start

▪ And you're not to start drinking that nasty whisky again.

▪ One month after we returned to New York, he started drinking again.

▪ Although I used to enjoy a drink, I started really drinking heavily after he died.

▪ Once the formalities were dispensed with, it was time to start drinking.

▪ At the very least, she started drinking then.

▪ About a year before, I start drinking a little at parties.

▪ Then I really started drinking heavily.

▪ Then, I start drinking too much at parties.

stop

▪ Some nights he'd hit the vodka bottle and I'd be crying and begging him to stop drinking.

▪ I may not stop for food or drink.

▪ The only way you can stop yourself drinking it is to lecture the world about how bad it is.

▪ He had even tried to stop drinking a couple of times for me, though of course it never lasted.

▪ If you find it difficult to stop drinking altogether, try to cut down as much as possible.

▪ Customers stopping by to drink coffee and check on the markets screen found themselves locked out.

▪ Granny-Liz would always stop fanning herself to drink up a glass of iced water.

▪ Another related a story about a friend who got pregnant unintentionally while drunk and only then was compelled to stop drinking.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

be meat and drink to sb

▪ These figures are heroes to conservatives for their espousal of policies that are meat and drink to the right, especially abortion.

being drunk and disorderly

▪ Mr. Bell denied being drunk and disorderly and denied being in breach of the bail condition.

▪ Once, in about 1985 I think, for being drunk and disorderly.

▪ Reportedly, two Houston police officers arrested a black woman for being drunk and disorderly.

blind drunk

drink/laugh/scare etc yourself silly

▪ Well, I laughed myself silly.

drinking horn/powder horn etc

drunk on/with sth

▪ We were drunk with freedom.

eat/drink your fill

▪ Here the nomads water their flocks and the horses drink their fill when the tourists have dismounted.

▪ I stopped at some blackberry bushes and ate my fill.

▪ Menelaus gave them a courteous greeting and bade them eat their fill.

▪ There was still time for Frankie, if he was very quiet and very careful, to eat his fill.

▪ Why were those high-fibre eaters keeping slim even when they were eating their fill?

farewell party/dinner/drink etc

▪ A celebration, a farewell party.

▪ Kate's local women's group gives her a farewell party of disapproval veiled by loyalty.

▪ On 8 August 1952 he and Joan gave a farewell party to Cambridge friends.

▪ She was then shown a picture taken at the farewell party at Champion Spark Plugs just before Paula went on maternity leave.

▪ The farewell dinner is at the historic Abbey Tavern, located in the fishing village of Howth.

▪ Worse awaited the Vietminh leader two evenings later, at a farewell dinner organized by Zhou.

fizzy drink

▪ Alcohol in fizzy drinks is absorbed more quickly than alcohol in still drinks.

▪ Eat anything you like - yes, anything - chocolate, cream, fizzy drinks, coffee.

▪ I had brought fizzy drinks but both women spat the stuff out, having never tasted it before.

▪ Natural fruit juices are a healthier alternative to fruit squashes and fizzy drinks.

▪ Potato chips, fizzy drinks and chocolate bars are circulated.

▪ She disapproves of anything that tastes really good, like icecream and fizzy drinks and hamburgers and chips and chocolate.

▪ There were presents for every child, disco dancing, party games, fizzy drinks and floating gas balloons.

▪ Would you like to join a brilliant new club that's run by the makers of the fizzy drink, Tizer?

roaring drunk

▪ They were all roaring drunk and kept singing bawdy songs.

▪ I was twenty-three years old, and he got me roaring drunk.

▪ In some of the villages, apparently, vampire hunters get roaring drunk first.

▪ Never an unwise investment, never stone roaring drunk, never a pass at a secretary.

▪ So that night they celebrated, getting roaring drunk, playing cards and gambling.

something to eat/drink/read/do etc

▪ But he was walking to a truck stop across the street, probably getting something to eat during his break.

▪ It had something to do with being a man.

▪ It had something to do with skills, and something to do with expectation and hope.

▪ Most calendar programs remind you gently when you have something to do.

▪ No, you can't dash out for something to eat.

▪ Of course, the beer might have had something to do with this.

▪ Then I rolled up my things in a blanket and went out and had something to eat.

▪ You've done it a thousand times already, but you do it again, just for something to do.

stiff drink/whisky etc

▪ A couple of stiff drinks and a bowl of soup afterwards was about all I could cope with.

▪ A good shower helped, but she would have liked to go down and search for a stiff drink.

▪ Calm your nerves by deep breathing, not by having a stiff drink.

▪ Come on, you need a stiff drink.

▪ I poured myself a stiff drink and tossed it down.

▪ Many people would rather have a stiff drink to help them sleep, than take a sleeping tablet for their insomnia.

▪ When he got home he'd have a stiff drink and a long bath, followed by another stiff drink.

stinking drunk

▪ Clayton got positively stinking drunk.

▪ At Christmas, I tend to get stinking drunk with schlock.

the demon drink

▪ Perhaps the demon drink had won?

the odd occasion/day/moment/drink etc

▪ However, on the odd occasion that I purchase fish elsewhere, I do quarantine the fish for two weeks.

▪ Not on the odd occasion, but each time they took this fit.

▪ On the odd occasion the jollities would get out of hand and the fists would fly.

▪ This doesn't matter on the odd occasion; it is only a problem if it occurs regularly.

▪ We've been working on the Panch Chule expedition for a year, but it's just the odd day basically.

▪ We just used to banter, have the odd drink together, fool around in the snow.

under the influence (of alcohol/drink/drugs etc)

▪ Cowan suggests that the strength of the excitatory interactions increases relative to that of the inhibitory interactions under the influence of the drug.

▪ Teenagers under the influence of the locally produced khat narcotic plant were said to be responsible for much of the artillery fire.

▪ The motor velocity increases under the influence of the positive torque and the equilibrium position is attained with maximum velocity.

▪ The roads, under the influence of the rain, were becoming shocking.

▪ The weather became cooler under the influences of cold breezes from the frozen north, observed my master.

▪ Today I write this, happily, under the influence of a drug.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

▪ "Whiskey?" "No thanks, I don't drink."

▪ Drink your coffee before it gets cold.

▪ Charlie drinks way too much coffee.

▪ Did you drink a lot over Christmas?

▪ He's been depressed, and drinking a lot more recently.

▪ He was drinking vodka straight from the bottle.

▪ I think people who drink and drive should be banned from driving permanently.

▪ Is this water safe to drink?

▪ It was clear that Malone had been drinking heavily.

▪ My uncle drinks like a fish, and has done for years.

▪ She's been drinking more heavily recently.

▪ She picked up the cup and began to drink thirstily.

▪ What do you want to drink?

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

▪ A man was sitting at a small table in the corner, drinking coffee from a delicate china cup.

▪ Customers stopping by to drink coffee and check on the markets screen found themselves locked out.

▪ Eventually I delivered my health to chance and drank whatever my companions drank.

▪ Pascoe drank some more whisky; then he drank a little more than that.

▪ The Romans believed the amethyst prevented drunkenness and used to drink out of goblets studded with these purple gems.

▪ They drank powdered milk instead of fresh.

▪ They had drunk a great deal and the night was warm, but on a sudden they were both stone-cold sober.

▪ They want customers to drink up, but wisely.

II.noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

alcoholic

▪ I knew of no virtues except truthfulness, obedience, self-sacrifice, total abstinence from alcoholic drinks ....

▪ It now appears that daily consumption of one or two standard alcoholic drinks reduces the risk of heart disease.

▪ All alcoholic drinks and telephone calls will be charged as taken. 4.

▪ Absorption can be slowed a bit, but not much, if alcoholic drink is taken with food.

▪ How much do you know about alcoholic drinks? 1.

▪ This research will be extended by examining 10- to 16-year olds' perceptions of advertisements for alcoholic drinks.

▪ I am not sure how they reconciled that situation, since the Methodists were very much against alcoholic drink.

▪ This Review must include a report on the competition between different categories of alcoholic drink.

cold

▪ Next, I tried thinking of cold drinks and old friends, but the pain hung on.

▪ Finally, a cold drink directly stimulates receptors for coolness.

▪ Ruth fixed herself a cold drink and sat out on the balcony of the apartment to drink it.

▪ Sometimes they offer a cup of tea, or a cold drink or something to eat.

▪ They had walked across the dust to the steps expectantly, thinking of the cool sweat on a cold drink.

▪ We order some cold sandwiches and cold drinks.

▪ Dry mucous membranes; dry or coated tongue with a red triangular tip. Cold drinks can bring on chilliness or cough.

▪ After a morning of hiking among the red rocks of Sedona, we returned to cold drinks and lunch in our vehicle.

cool

▪ You can also relax on the terrace of the lovely fresh water pool sipping a cool drink form the bar.

▪ In the evening, the Lanes offer warm conversation along with cool drinks, coffee, tea or hot chocolate.

▪ Her tongue felt parched for a cool drink.

▪ Nico, our host, serves cool drinks and limited snacks in the bar downstairs till supper time.

▪ You have probably been perspiring quite impressively too, and you are beginning to have fantasies of pints of a cool drink.

▪ In this oasis, you will disperse funds on food and snacks and cool drinks.

▪ She was standing with a tray of cool drinks.

▪ She was grateful for the cool drink, however, and for the really tasty snack.

fizzy

▪ Would you like to join a brilliant new club that's run by the makers of the fizzy drink, Tizer?

▪ I had brought fizzy drinks but both women spat the stuff out, having never tasted it before.

▪ Potato chips, fizzy drinks and chocolate bars are circulated.

▪ There were presents for every child, disco dancing, party games, fizzy drinks and floating gas balloons.

▪ Natural fruit juices are a healthier alternative to fruit squashes and fizzy drinks.

▪ She disapproves of anything that tastes really good, like icecream and fizzy drinks and hamburgers and chips and chocolate.

▪ Eat anything you like - yes, anything - chocolate, cream, fizzy drinks, coffee.

▪ Amid much razzmatazz PepsiCo announced that the second most popular fizzy drink in the world would henceforth come in blue packaging.

free

▪ Eat, drink and be merry at the Medieval Night which includes a meal, free drinks and an open-air castle disco.

▪ Everyone crowded round, fawning at him and readily taking up his offer of free drinks.

▪ These were then combined as a buffet and served back to the students together with one free soft drink of their choice.

▪ Maybe it's a case of all these important people getting free drinks in the George Best Suite after the match.

▪ Usually, it's just for a lift or free drinks, but she once flirted her way into a job.

hot

▪ He said he supposed it was and offered to show them into the Intensive Care room which had a hot drinks machine.

▪ Gone was the free and easy time of three meals a day and as many hot drinks as we liked.

▪ I wish I'd got some cos I could really do with a hot drink.

▪ Alida went downstairs, stooping a little, not knowing that she stooped, annoyed at the trouble a hot drink caused.

▪ Hot pasties and hot drinks are served below deck at the bar, a comfort on chilly days.

▪ All hot drinks also each have two teaspoons of sugar added.

▪ Then he remembered the hot drink he'd promised her.

▪ During cold weather, hot meals and plenty of hot drinks will make you feel warmer inside.

long

▪ Inside they are drinking up: two hundred and fifty black fellers nursing their last long drinks.

▪ Alice stole one long drink before rolling over in the boundless bed, fantasizing it as an endless beach of white cloud.

▪ I took a long drink and settled down to wait.

▪ I take a long drink at the water fountain, wondering what virus I might catch.

▪ On warm days a long and cooling drink, or a mug of tea, is impossible to resist.

▪ Only fear kept him from retching when he had taken a long drink.

▪ He took a long drink and filled his bottle.

▪ Sally sits down and takes a long drink of water from her squeeze bottle.

soft

▪ Alcohol and soft drinks are much harder to estimate.

▪ In the mornings Ruth Rasmussen would be ready with a cooler of sandwiches and soft drinks.

▪ Filled rolls with tea, coffee and soft drinks will be dispensed.

▪ There was a soft drink bottle on the windowsill.

▪ People at ground floor windows offered soft drinks.

▪ Teenage soft drink consumption has doubled in recent years.

▪ Two defendants were lorry drivers for a soft drinks company.

▪ A life-long lover of magazines, he found work at everything from a fan magazine to a soft drink publication.

stiff

▪ Calm your nerves by deep breathing, not by having a stiff drink.

▪ When he got home he'd have a stiff drink and a long bath, followed by another stiff drink.

▪ A good shower helped, but she would have liked to go down and search for a stiff drink.

▪ I poured myself a stiff drink and tossed it down.

▪ Many people would rather have a stiff drink to help them sleep, than take a sleeping tablet for their insomnia.

▪ A couple of stiff drinks and a bowl of soup afterwards was about all I could cope with.

strong

▪ He is that rare bird, the night-owl who likes talking without the prop of a strong drink in his hands.

▪ After finishing his degree in medicine, he wrote pamphlets against tobacco, strong drink, and slavery.

▪ The scent of rose water hung in the air, covering the stale smell of pipe tobacco and strong drink.

▪ We had no strong drink, no such thing as whiskey, before the white man came to our country.

▪ One Sunday, he went hunting with his fierce black mastiffs, stopping only to swig at a flask of strong drink.

▪ She on the other hand, thought that a drink, a strong drink, might be exactly what she needed.

▪ I think strong drink is damnation.

▪ To the best among them he offered opulent breakfasts ending with stronger drink than coffee.

■ NOUN

party

▪ They are the ideal tasters for a drinks party or guests who are just arriving.

▪ For a drinks party, five or six savouries per person is about right.

▪ They were indistinct at first, like the hum of conversation at a drinks party.

problem

▪ The defence solicitor, Jack Gowans, said Ballantine has a drink problem but is a kind, intelligent and caring man.

▪ The task of discovering whether an ageing individual has a drink problem requires considerable tact and sensitivity.

▪ And the secret past of stony -faced consultant Julian Chapman emerges in the shape of a failed marriage and a drink problem.

▪ He escaped a prison sentence after magistrates heard he was seeking help for his drink problem.

▪ His drink problem caused the break up of his marriage.

▪ I knew I had a drink problem.

▪ If Patsy had a penchant for a pretty frock, Hughie Gallacher had a drink problem.

▪ Jim's father has a chronic drink problem and he eventually put the family out of their house.

■ VERB

bring

▪ He also noted that she hadn't brought a drink.

▪ Another would request him to tell somebody to bring him a drink of water.

▪ He brought his drink up to his lips with the other.

▪ She replaced the binoculars on the table, brought her drink to her mouth simply because it was there in her hand.

▪ He brought her a drink, offered her a cigarette.

▪ He brings the drinks silently and hands me a glass.

▪ When we'd got back there the bird had brought the drinks out and the talk'd got filthier.

▪ She said no, but he did not hear her, and she waited until he brought the drink.

buy

▪ As the audience are too preoccupied to buy any drinks, the barman and five barmaids dance on the bar throughout.

▪ He patted backs and bought drinks, working the room in political style.

▪ Where could they eat steak and chips, buy their favourite drink, or be entertained?

▪ It all stunned Jack, who was a sucker for slick talk, and he bought me drinks for an hour.

▪ I hope it will be my privilege to buy you a drink as well.

▪ And they would have bought me drinks, and cleared a path for me.

▪ Instead he offers to buy me a drink.

enjoy

▪ Although I used to enjoy a drink, I started really drinking heavily after he died.

▪ If you enjoy an occasional drink this may do no harm but by cutting out drink altogether you avoid any possible risks.

▪ Here, two camera positions are being used alternately to record a group of friends enjoying a drink in the sun.

▪ It has a spacious lounge, and a traditional stube where you can enjoy drinks with the locals.

▪ I smoke too much and I enjoy a drink.

▪ From a very early age - in fact, right from the early weeks - babies enjoy a refreshing drink.

▪ If your child enjoys a bedtime drink there's no point in refusing one.

finish

▪ They finished their drinks and as they got up from the table Fernando plucked a sprig of jasmine from the pergola.

▪ More customers entered, louder than the earlier ones, faster to finish their drinks.

▪ We finished our drinks and Siegfried immersed himself in the Veterinary Record as savoury smells began to issue from the kitchen.

▪ He finished his drink and got up to leave.

▪ Grace finished her drink quickly, and changed out of her wet clothes.

▪ While they ate hungrily, Ellen finished her drink, feeling light, warm and happy.

▪ As soon as I finished the drink, various players started to point their fingers at me again.

fix

▪ Ruth fixed herself a cold drink and sat out on the balcony of the apartment to drink it.

▪ Wade fixed a pair of drinks, passed one over to Claude, and looked up at the clock over the stove.

get

▪ I went down to the washroom to get a drink of water, and to have a shave.

▪ We got drinks from the waitress and sat in our swivel chairs in front of these ma-chines.

▪ I said I was thirsty so she went to get me a drink.

▪ But it turned out she was only visiting the bar behind them to get a drink.

▪ Con got back with the drinks at the same time as Margaret reached the table.

▪ Fong allowed a man to get him a drink.

▪ Can I get you a drink?

▪ I stopped going there a season ago too difficult to get a drink.

give

▪ Outlaws sometimes came by and gave him food and drink.

▪ One of the men gave him a drink of whiskey, but he vomited it.

▪ Slowly I went from pot to pot, pot to pot, giving each flower its drink of water.

▪ There Dionysus gave them food and drink: herbs and berries and the milk of the wild goat.

▪ And you haven't given yourself a drink.

▪ After a week, the group that was given breakfast was given the drink, and vice versa.

▪ Call a doctor or nurse. Give them warm nourishing drinks.

▪ She had almost given up drink.

like

▪ Some would like a drink, but drinks are not allowed.

▪ I didn't like drink particularly.

▪ His father rose, walked into the bar and asked his son if he would like a drink.

▪ I prefer to prepare the food and I also like to serve the drinks.

▪ He averted his eyes from it and went into the kitchen, asking whether she would like an iced drink.

▪ Again, my Dad liked a drink.

▪ I like a drink myself but we have to watch it.

▪ One of them asked John if he would like a drink.

need

▪ He needed a drink and that old swine Busacher hadn't offered him anything at the villa.

▪ What she needed was a drink.

▪ He felt he needed a drink - this could be quite a trying evening.

▪ She would need a drink soon, and food.

▪ Alcoholics are mocked and tormented when they can not scrounge the kopek needed for their next drink.

▪ A sure sign he needed a drink.

▪ He needed a drink very badly; water would do.

▪ If you need a drink, dip a mug over the side - the water is disease-free.

offer

▪ Nathan moved among the guests, offering drinks, accepting condolences.

▪ Riders were offered food and drinks when their trip finally ended.

▪ His technique was to win women's confidence with his charm, and to offer them a spiked drink.

▪ Even worse, it turned out that being able to offer drinks was not a key promise for his customers.

▪ She heard his car in the drive, and called down to Victor to offer him a drink while he waited.

▪ Rip was offered a drink, which he enjoyed.

▪ At the half-time break three other members of the club had offered her a drink before I even reached the bar.

▪ Kurt, I never even offered you a drink.

order

▪ Conversation paused then continued in lower voices and several pairs of eyes watched both men cautiously as they ordered drinks.

▪ We settled into a table for two and ordered drinks.

▪ She wanted to order herself a drink, but she did not dare.

▪ For the sake of symmetry, Blue orders the same drink.

▪ Yanto and Billy heard the blonde tell the landlord that it was her birthday as she ordered the drinks.

▪ She orders a cloudy greenish drink with ice cubes.

▪ Or you might be better sitting down and ordering yourself a drink: the waiter may be gone some time.

▪ Coolly I ordered another drink, and swivelled on my stool.

pour

▪ It was claimed that they poured their drinks over the counter and then smashed their beer glasses.

▪ This reminds me of a problem that has been troubling Mycroft. Pour me a drink, Watson.

▪ While he was pouring the drinks Ron the landlord raised his eyebrows at me.

▪ As he was waiting for the barmaid to pour the drinks, Dexter could not resist temptation.

▪ Madge grabbed it and looked at it, smelled it and poured Kiki a drink.

▪ Luke poured drinks and Robyn accepted hers gratefully.

serve

▪ No, they would not serve only a drink, she should recall that.

▪ All the women agreed that Sherman served them drinks they had not seen him prepare and said they later felt very drugged.

▪ There's a pool surrounded by a sunterrace and a poolside bar which serves drinks and snacks during the day.

▪ Male speaker It's part of the 1964 licencing act you're not allowed to serve drink to people already intoxicated.

▪ Nico, our host, serves cool drinks and limited snacks in the bar downstairs till supper time.

▪ Zak's long scene began with impressive fireworks as soon as everyone in the dining car had been served with a drink.

▪ Outside the door hovered Alfred, detailed by Auguste to serve drinks when royalty had arrived.

▪ I prefer to prepare the food and I also like to serve the drinks.

sip

▪ He smiled and sipped his drink, glancing across at the phone as he refilled his glass.

▪ We sipped our drink and spoke of other things and ignored everything that had happened.

▪ He would go to a bar late and sip a long drink very slowly.

▪ Take it easy. Sip your drink, don't gulp it.

▪ But then she would, he thought, sipping the delicate drink.

▪ While she was gone Johnny continued to smoke and to sip his drink.

▪ She sipped the drink and watched him from under her lashes.

take

▪ I took a drink from one of the twenty-four plastic gallon containers which I had been collecting for two years.

▪ Only fear kept him from retching when he had taken a long drink.

▪ I took a long drink and settled down to wait.

▪ He takes a drink, moans with pleasure at the taste.

▪ He took a long drink and filled his bottle.

▪ Instead, he dropped the dead moth and immediately took a drink of water.

▪ Murder charge is dropped after claims that dead model took drink and drugs.

▪ I go into the bathroom, take a drink, a long one.

want

▪ Do you want a drink the next morning? 17.

▪ All at once she did not want the drink.

▪ I grinned lopsidedly and asked her if she wanted a drink.

▪ He wanted a drink, scotch, he wanted to sleep.

▪ I didn't want another drink anyway.

▪ Then he had to see an old schoolteacher, and so on, and all I wanted to do was drink beer.

▪ At about midnight, Lucker wakes up and wants a drink.

▪ I wanted a drink as well.