beer up

English

Verb

beer up (third-person singular simple present beers up, present participle beering up, simple past and past participle beered up)

1. (dialectal or US, intransitive) To drink a lot of beer; especially, to get drunk on beer.

   Hypernyms: get drunk, tank up, oil up

   Coordinate terms: liquor up, gin up, wine up

   • 1885, William Bury Westall, Ralph Norbreck's Trust‎^[1], page 66:

     "Nay I didn't. I found th' cart and horses at 'The Cock' door, and Cracker was inside, beering up."

   • 1947, J. G. Taylor Spink, Judge Landis and Twenty-Five Years of Baseball‎^[2], page 121:

     John Calhoun Benton, a South Carolinian now deceased, was no white lily; he frequently was disciplined by his managers for beering up, and by 1922 the majority of National League club owners wanted no more of him.

   • 2005, "Jon Sharpe" (Ed Gorman), The Trailsman #280: Texas Tart, unnumbered page,

     Before returning to the cabin, he spent nearly an hour in a saloon beering up for the ride back.

   • 2008, Robert W. Proctor, Even Gods Walk in Shadows‎^[3], page 101:

     He stoked his energy for each evening's entrance to the club by beering-up yet one more time at only two-bits a Coors in The Mariposa.

See also

• beered-up (adjective)

Anagrams

• Burpee, burpee