Become+intoxicated
121get dribbly — vb British to become intoxicated by drink or drugs. The phrase usually, but not necessarily, implies being visibly uncontrolled. It was in use among middle class stu dents in 2001 …
122get messy — vb British to become intoxicated by drink or drugs. An item of student slang in use in Lon don and elsewhere since around 2000 …
123get off one's case — vb British to become intoxicated by drugs, to get high. An item of prison slang …
124glue sniffing — N UNCOUNT Glue sniffing is the practice of breathing the vapour from glue in order to become intoxicated. Syn: solvent abuse …
125cop an elephant's — to become intoxicated Rhyming slang on elephant s trunk, drunk. Occasionally a drunkard may be described as elephant s. See also JUMBO …
126Ra — 1) The first appearance of this Egyptian sun god is as the grandson of Rat and son of Nut over whose arched back he travelled each day, dying at dusk as an old man, and being reborn at dawn. At a later stage in religious development he… …
127belt the grape — tv. to drink wine or liquor heavily and become intoxicated. □ He has a tendency to belt the grape twenty four hours a day. □ She’s been belting the grape more than she wants …
128cider — [sī′dər] n. [ME cidre, sider < OFr sidre, cidere < LL(Ec) sicera < Gr(Ec) sikera, an intoxicating drink, of Sem orig., as in Akkadian s̆ikaru, barley beer, Heb shēkār, strong drink of grain and honey < shākar, to become intoxicated]… …
