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HIT THE BOTTLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hit the bottle mean?
• HIT THE BOTTLE (verb)
The verb HIT THE BOTTLE has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: HIT THE BOTTLE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Consume alcohol
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Synonyms:
booze; drink; fuddle; hit the bottle
Context example:
We were up drinking all night
Hypernyms (to "hit the bottle" is one way to...):
consume; have; ingest; take; take in (serve oneself to, or consume regularly)
Verb group:
drink; tope (drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hit the bottle"):
tank (consume excessive amounts of alcohol)
port (drink port)
claret (drink claret)
bar hop; pub-crawl (go from one pub to the next and get progressively more drunk)
bib; tipple (drink moderately but regularly)
hit it up; inebriate; soak; souse (become drunk or drink excessively)
wine (drink wine)
carry; hold (drink alcohol without showing ill effects)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
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