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lush it up

lush it up verb: to drink alcohol to excess; to get drunk.

Verb

lush it up (third-person singular simple present lushes it up, present participle lushing it up, simple past and past participle lushed it up)

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive, slang) To drink alcohol to excess; to get drunk.
    • “Say, man, how you coming with Eva?” the host asked.
      “Fine, fine, we lushing it up.”1962, James Baldwin, Another Country, New York, N. Y.: The Dial Press, published January 1963, page 18

Synonyms of lush it up

Forms of lush it up

third-person singular presentlushes it up
present participlelushing it up
past participlelushed it up
pastlushed it up

Questions about lush it up

What does lush it up mean?
Lush it up means to drink alcohol to excess; to get drunk.
What part of speech is lush it up?
Lush it up is a verb.
What is the past tense of lush it up?
The past tense of lush it up is lushed it up.

Words near lush it up in the dictionary

  1. luserns
  2. lusers
  3. Luses
  4. lush
  5. lush around
  6. lush it up
  7. lush roller
  8. lush rollers
  9. lush up
  10. lush worker
  11. lush workers

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