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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:

1. consume alcoholplay

  Familiarity information: HIT THE BOTTLE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HIT THE BOTTLE (verb)


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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