liquor up

English

Verb

liquor up (third-person singular simple present liquors up, present participle liquoring up, simple past and past participle liquored up)

1. (informal, transitive) To cause someone to drink liquor, usually to excess.

   Hypernyms: get drunk, oil up

   Hyponym: gin up (broadly synonymous)

   Coordinate terms: wine up, beer up

   Apparently his best idea for persuading someone is to get them liquored up and then wear them down.

2. (informal, intransitive) To drink liquor, usually to excess.

   Hypernyms: get drunk, tank up, oil up

   Coordinate terms: wine up, beer up

References

• (drink liquor): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary