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Drink Up

Definition: Drink Up

Drink Up

Verb

1. Drink to the last drop.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Drink Up

Synonym: drain the cup (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Drink Up

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Drink Up

Specialty definitions using "drink up": Glass BreakerTo MOP UP. (references)
Etymologies containing "drink up": Valinch. (references)

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Modern Usage: Drink Up

DomainUsage

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.

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Use in Literature: Drink Up

TitleAuthorQuote

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.

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Expression: Drink Up

Expression using "drink up": to drink up. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Drink Up

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

   

Romanian

  

bea pânã la fund (bottoms up, drain to the dregs, drink to the dregs, finish your glass). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

выпить до дна, осушить залпом, допить, допивать. (various references)

   

Scottish

  

sruab (drink up with noise of the lips, pull hastily out of water). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

popiti na iskap (drink smth. down, knock back, toss off). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

beberse todo. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

dricka ur i ett enda drag (drink down). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

içip bitirmek (drink off). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Drink Up

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

ebibent, exhaurient, exhauriet. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Drink Up

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

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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