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 elder Miss Bennets alone were still able to eat, drink, and sleep, and pursue the usual course of their employments.
The roaring lions come to drink.
There seemed to be no use in waiting by the little door, so she went back to the table, half hoping she might find another key on it, or at any rate a book of rules for shutting people up like telescopes: this time she found a little bottle on it, (“which certainly was not here before,” said Alice,) and round the neck of the bottle was a paper label, with the words “DRINK ME,” beautifully printed on it in large letters.
It was all very well to say “Drink me,” but the wise little Alice was not going to do _that_ in a hurry.
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