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Definition: Drink Up |
Drink UpVerb1. Drink to the last drop. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Drink UpSynonym: drain the cup (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Food | Drink in, drink up, drink one's fill; quaff, sip, sup; suck, suck up; lap; swig; swill, chugalug, tipple; (be drunken); empty one's glass, drain the cup; toss off, toss one's glass; wash down, crack a bottle, wet one's whistle. |
Physical Pleasure | Verb: feel pleasure, experience pleasure, receive pleasure; enjoy, relish; luxuriate in, revel in, riot in, bask in, swim in, drink up, eat up, wallow in; feast on; gloat over, float on; smack the lips. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Drink Up |
| Specialty definitions using "drink up": Glass Breaker ♦ To MOP UP. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "drink up": Valinch. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Drink up while it's cold, ladies. (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | Drink up, said Ford, "you've got three pints to get through." "Three pints?" said Arthur. "At lunchtime?" The man next to ford grinned and nodded happily. Ford ignored him. He said, "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." "Very deep," said Arthur, "you should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Expression using "drink up": to drink up. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "drink up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pi me fund (drain, quaff), mbaroj (be over, call it a day, cease, close, decline, despatch, die, dispatch, do, eat up, end, finish, get through, go out, lapse, perish, peter out, spend, surcease, terminate, wind up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | شرب بجرعة واحدة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | екс, изпразвам чаша, изпразнете чашите, изпивам (consume, down, drain, drink, lower, put away, shift, suck down, suck up, take off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vypít (drain, empty, take). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | vider son verre, finir. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | austrinken (empty, finish off, to drink up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | utolsó cseppig megissza, kiissza. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 干す (to air, to desiccate, to drain off, to drink up, to dry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | のみほす (to drain, to drink up), ほす (to air, to desiccate, to drain, to drink up, to dry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | folmaghey (blow out, clear out, deflate, deflation, deplenish, depletion, discharge, drain, empty, evacuation, hollow, unburden, vacate, void). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | inkdray upay bea pânã la fund (bottoms up, drain to the dregs, drink to the dregs, finish your glass). (various references) выпить до дна, осушить залпом, допить, допивать. (various references) sruab (drink up with noise of the lips, pull hastily out of water). (various references) popiti na iskap (drink smth. down, knock back, toss off). (various references) beberse todo. (various references) dricka ur i ett enda drag (drink down). (various references) içip bitirmek (drink off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | ebibent, exhaurient, exhauriet. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-i-k-n-p-r-u" | |
-2 letters: drink, drunk, prink, purin, unrip. | |
-3 letters: dink, dirk, drip, dunk, durn, kind, kirn, knur, nurd, pink, pirn, punk, puri, rind, rink, ruin. | |
-4 letters: din, dip, dui, dun, dup, ink, irk, kid, kin, kip, kir, nip, pin, piu, pud, pun, pur, rid, rin, rip, run, urd, urn. | |
-5 letters: id, in, nu, pi, un, up. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Expressions 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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