drink out

English

Verb

drink out (third-person singular simple present drinks out, present participle drinking out, simple past drank out, past participle drunk out)

1. (obsolete, British, transitive) To finish a beverage; to empty a cup by drinking the contents.
   • 1890, Carl Millöcker, Der Arme Jonathan: Operette in drei Akten‎^[1], page 8:

     Yes, ... then, drink out drink out the glass!

   • 1807, Oliver Goldsmith, The Poems and Essays of Oliver Goldsmith‎^[2], page 23:

     that was very odd ! that so much punch could be drank out already!

   Lift your glass and drink it out!

2. (rare, intransitive, by extension from eat out) To drink alcohol in a pub, bar, restaurant or other public establishment.

References

• Joseph Wright (editor). The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect Words Still in Use, Or Known to Have Been in Use During the Last Two Hundred Years: A-E. 1898.