take a whet

verb

Roget 959: get drunk, be drunk etc. adj.; see double; take a drop too much, take a glass too much; drink; tipple, tope, booze, bouse [Fr.], guzzle, swill [Slang], soak [Slang], sot, bum [U.S.], besot, have a jag on, have a buzz on, lush [Slang], bib, swig, carouse; sacrifice at the shrine of Bacchus^†; take to drinking; drink hard, drink deep, drink like a fish; have one's swill [Slang], drain the cup, splice the main brace, take a hair of the dog that bit you.    liquor, liquor up; wet one's whistle, take a whet; crack a bottle, pass the bottle; toss off etc. (drink up) 298; go to the alehouse, go to the public house.    make one drunk etc. adj.; inebriate, fuddle, befuddle, fuzzle^†, get into one's head.    ... show more

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