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hold one's alcohol

hold one's alcohol verb: synonym of hold one's liquor.

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

Synonyms of hold one's alcohol

Forms of hold one's alcohol

third-person singular presentholds one's alcohol
present participleholding one's alcohol
past participleheld one's alcohol
pastheld one's alcohol

Questions about hold one's alcohol

What does hold one's alcohol mean?
Hold one's alcohol means synonym of hold one's liquor.
What part of speech is hold one's alcohol?
Hold one's alcohol is a verb.
What is the past tense of hold one's alcohol?
The past tense of hold one's alcohol is held one's alcohol.

Words near hold one's alcohol in the dictionary

  1. hold my beer
  2. hold my milk
  3. hold off
  4. hold on
  5. hold on to your hat
  6. hold one's alcohol
  7. hold one's breath
  8. hold one's drink
  9. hold one's fire
  10. hold one's ground
  11. hold one's head above water

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