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drank off

drank off is the simple past of drink off.

Meaning of drink off

Verb

drink off (third-person singular simple present drinks off, present participle drinking off, simple past drank off, past participle drunk off)

  1. (dated) To drink the entirety of in a short period; originally and especially, in a single gulp.
    • Take thou this vial, being then in bed, / And this distilled liquor drink thou off; […]c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

Questions about drank off

What is drank off the simple past of?
Drank off is the simple past of drink off.

Words near drank off in the dictionary

  1. drank down
  2. drank from a firehose
  3. drank from the fire hydrant
  4. drank from the furry cup
  5. drank in
  6. drank off
  7. drank one's own Kool-Aid
  8. drank out
  9. drank someone under the table
  10. drank something like lemonade
  11. drank the Kool Aid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: drank off (page history and authors); drink off (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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