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beer up

beer up verb: to drink a lot of beer; especially, to get drunk on beer.

Verb

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

  1. (US, dialectal, intransitive) To drink a lot of beer; especially, to get drunk on beer.
    • "Nay I didn't. I found th' cart and horses at 'The Cock' door, and Cracker was inside, beering up."1885, William Bury Westall, Ralph Norbreck's Trust, page 66
    • 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.1947, J. G. Taylor Spink, Judge Landis and Twenty-Five Years of Baseball, page 121

Forms of beer up

third-person singular presentbeers up
present participlebeering up
past participlebeered up
pastbeered up

Questions about beer up

What does beer up mean?
Beer up means to drink a lot of beer; especially, to get drunk on beer.
What part of speech is beer up?
Beer up is a verb.
What is the past tense of beer up?
The past tense of beer up is beered up.

Words near beer up in the dictionary

  1. beer sticks
  2. beer tent
  3. beer tents
  4. beer ticket
  5. beer tickets
  6. beer up
  7. beer wench
  8. beer wenches
  9. beer wort
  10. beer worts
  11. Beer's law

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