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cabrewing

cabrewing noun: the practice of consuming alcohol while canoeing.

Noun

cabrewing (uncountable)

  1. (slang, Ohio) The practice of consuming alcohol while canoeing.
    • While “cabrewing” — consuming alcohol while canoeing — has become a popular pastime among Miami University students, it doesn't go without consequences that could include a night in jail and a DUI.2010, Hunter Stenbeck, "Morgan's Canoe enforces alcohol rules", The Miami Student (Miami University, Oxford, Ohio), Volume 138, Number 8, 17 September 2010, page 1
    • After everyone left around one or two in the morning, we would crash for the night, get up in the morning to do something like “cabrewing” where we would take the remaining beers out in a boat, only to stop drinking for an hour or two before getting cleaned up to go to work.2013, AnnE O'Neill, If You Want the Rainbow, Welcome the Rain: A Memoir of Grief and Recovery, Balboa Press, →ISBN, pages 63–64

Origin of cabrewing

Blend of canoeing + brewing.

Questions about cabrewing

What does cabrewing mean?
Cabrewing means the practice of consuming alcohol while canoeing.
What part of speech is cabrewing?
Cabrewing is a noun.

Words near cabrewing in the dictionary

  1. cabrestos
  2. cabretta
  3. cabrettas
  4. cabreuva
  5. cabreuvas
  6. cabrewing
  7. cabri
  8. Cabriales
  9. Cabrialeses
  10. cabrie
  11. cabries

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