on the ran tan
English
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Pronunciation
[edit]Prepositional phrase
[edit]- (slang, archaic) Drunk.
- 1920, Dogdom: Monthly, volume 21, page 497:
- The proofreader had been evidently on the ran tan […]
References
[edit]- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary