
These usages are arranged alphabetically here, all having something to do with the theme of "drinking." For fuller information about each usage, see the main list. There are twenty-six files there. Just click on to the appropriate letter.
a blue mixed: blue label and mild ale, mixed
Ale, out on the: out carousing
alehouse mad: an incurable lush
at it again: drinking heavily again
babycham: small bottle of champagne
badger piss: inferior liquor
beer for dogs: seemingly endless supply of same
Bells of Shannon, to be giving it: letting it all hang out at a do
bevvied: drunk
bevvy: drink
bevvy ken: alehouse
Bird and the Baby: another name for the Eagle and Child Pub
black and tan: Guinness and mild ale
bladdered: drunk
bombed: thoroughly inebriated
booze-jerk, -jerker: a bartender
booze-moke: horse for beer wagon
booze-up: party
boozer: public house
boozery: brewery
Buck's Fizz: champagne or sparkling white wine and orange juice
champers: champagne, sometimes with brandy
chemicked: drunk
de Pope's phone: Vat 69 whisky
derty stopout: Citizen Neverhome
do: party
fally: mixture of beer and stout
fender ale: beer drunk at home
few scoops, a: a few rounds of drink
fill your boots: good health, and here's to you
gedtheeaylin: fill this, please
gill, a: half pint
gozzified: woozy from drink
half a bitter: one half pint of light ale
(h)alf shot: drunk
(h)alf pissed: drunk
(h)alf seas over: drunk
(h)alf cut: drunk
(h)alf soaked: drunk
I `ad a few: drunk
jars out: there will be plenty of beer
jug: a pint
jungle juice: rum(sometimes, bitters)
kalied: drunk
legless: thoroughly intoxicated
livener: hair of the dog on the morning after
lotion: one more name for booze
lushed: drunk
maiden's water(virgin's piddle): weak beer
merry: very drunk
meths: mentholated spirits
minesweeper: drink stealer
Miss Euphoria: morphine and gin cocktail
mojo: mentholated spirits
Nelson's Blood: rum
on the slops, to be: to be on a bender, a long drinking spree
on the tiles, to be out on, or to do a night on the tiles: out carousing
one over the eight: drunken excess at ale
PAFO: hospital code for drunks brought in: pissed and fell over
parlatic: thoroughly intoxicated
Peter Hudson: about two thirds of a half pint
pinta Fally's: pint of Falstaff ale
plonky: a wine drinker
potcheen(potheen): in Liverpool, any liquor
rat-arsed: very drunk
red biddy: cheap red wine
rollin' in ther shit: thoroughly drunk
scoused: drunk
Screech: dark Demerara rum
shebeen: site for illegal liquor sales
shift ale, to: consume large amounts of beer
slab of beer: case of beer
sozzled: drunk
twig: a drink of something
virgin's piddle: weak beer (or other alcoholic drink)
wet the baby's head: perhaps just one drink
whirlies: dizzy from drinking
SAYINGS (DRINKING)
Eed suck der sweat from a dockers armpit
Es la ders a cactus in der bottom of me glass: your turn to buy.
Ey mate the ops in dis ale are drownin: the beer must be watered
More kick from a snake dan dis gnatspiss: the beer must be watered.
Fill yer boots, wack: here's to you.
towils is on: no more alcoholic beverages being served tonight.
stop yer tap: no more for you.
smell uv the barmaid's apron: I'll only drink a little bit.
avyer seen Phyllis?: notice that my glass is empty.
that feller spills more than I drink
`atches is off, de: alcohol is now being served.
To smoke a dry pipe: a pipe unaccompanied by a pint.
There's a baby in every bottle of Guinness
Any port in a storm, as my father used to say
Any port before bed will do, as me mum always said
A hangover: me head was going like a bucket of frogs
Beer past its time: the beer was so flat it should have been sold in envelopes