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held one's alcohol

held one's alcohol is the simple past and past participle of hold one's alcohol.

Meaning of hold one's alcohol

Verb

hold one's alcohol (third-person singular simple present holds one's alcohol, present participle holding one's alcohol, simple past and past participle held one's alcohol)

  1. (idiomatic) Synonym of hold one's liquor.
    • Annie tells me that Thomas wrote hundreds of poems in this house, with his greatest output coming between ages 16 and 20. He worked in the morning and drank late, Annie says. Unfortunately, Thomas couldn’t hold his alcohol — perhaps because he was a diabetic, as it’s now believed — so he became a...2013 August 15, Michael Shapiro, “Discovering Dylan Thomas’s Wales”, in The Washington Post

Questions about held one's alcohol

What is held one's alcohol the simple past and past participle of?
Held one's alcohol is the simple past and past participle of hold one's alcohol.

Words near held one's alcohol in the dictionary

  1. held it down
  2. held it in
  3. held it together
  4. held off
  5. held on
  6. held one's alcohol
  7. held one's breath
  8. held one's drink
  9. held one's fire
  10. held one's head high
  11. held one's horses

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