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drinking out

drinking out is the present participle and gerund of drink out.

Meaning of drink out

Verb

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

  1. (UK, obsolete, transitive) To finish a beverage; to empty a cup by drinking the contents.
    • Lift your glass and drink it out!
  2. (broadly, intransitive, rare) To drink alcohol in a pub, bar, restaurant or other public establishment.

Questions about drinking out

What is drinking out the present participle and gerund of?
Drinking out is the present participle and gerund of drink out.

Words near drinking out in the dictionary

  1. drinking horns
  2. drinking in
  3. drinking man's degree
  4. drinking off
  5. drinking one's own Kool-Aid
  6. drinking out
  7. drinking problem
  8. drinking someone under the table
  9. drinking something like lemonade
  10. drinking song
  11. drinking songs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: drinking out (page history and authors); drink out (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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