What is "drinking bout"

Usage examples of "drinking bout".

When the bars closed at two, five of the outlaws came over to my apartment for an all-night drinking bout.

After an hour or so of gestures, a few words of Spanish, and nervous demonstrations of my camera equipment, they seemed to feel a drinking bout was in order.

He'd taken no solid food during his two-day drinking bout and now, half light-headed with fasting, was in a state to believe anything.

Lucky for him if he were dead, for then he would be spared the abominable pain of recovery from a drinking bout that would have left Dionysus himself flat on his face for a week.

Miriam was being questioned in another room, while Franklin and Doug -- who'd returned from a drinking bout in a bar near his office -- were down in the administration office.

Karen's mother had always been fussy about her appearance, except when she was into a heavy drinking bout, of course, and Karen paid for her to have her hair done twice a week.

In fact, he drowned in six inches of muddy water, having fallen face down in a stream while on his way home after a prolonged drinking bout with a friend.

Awad had better be well into his cups, embarked irredeemably on an all-night drinking bout.

This felt right, felt normal, even if it was the result of a drinking bout.