drink
/ˈdɹɪŋk/ noun A1- A beverage. · What kind of drink would you like? We have soft drinks and hard drinks.
- Drinks in general; something to drink.
- A type of beverage (usually mixed). · My favourite drink is the White Russian.
- A (served) alcoholic beverage. · Can I buy you a drink?
- The action of drinking, especially with the verbs take or have. · He was about to take a drink from his root beer.
- Alcoholic beverages in general.
- A standard drink. · A drink of wine is about 5 ounces
- Any body of water. · If he doesn't pay off the mafia, he’ll wear cement shoes to the bottom of the drink!
Plural drinks
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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THE WASPS and the Partridges, overcome with thirst, came to a Farmer and besought him to give them some water to drink.
“Let us go the same way; we will stop at La Réserve, and we can drink a glass of La Malgue, whilst we wait for news.”
This prospect of fresh festivity redoubled the hilarity of the guests to such a degree, that the elder Dantès, who, at the commencement of the repast, had commented upon the silence that prevailed, now found it difficult, amid the general din of voices, to obtain a moment’s tranquillity in which to drink to the health and prosperity of the bride and bridegroom.
The rustic, ignorant of his danger, was about to drink, when the Eagle struck his hand with his wing, and, seizing the drinking horn in his talons, carried it aloft.
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