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on the lash

on the lash prepositional phrase: out drinking socially; usually involving heavy alcohol consumption.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (UK, slang) Out drinking socially; usually involving heavy alcohol consumption.
    • There's endless coverage of drunken "ladettes" out on the lash, young girls being sick into gutters, lying in streets, smoking, getting pregnant, looking gormless, telling people with research clipboards that "all they wanna be is famous, innit".2011 January 9, Barbara Ellen, “Too many of us treat young white women as trash”, in The Observer

Synonyms of on the lash

Origin of on the lash

Compare lash back, pre-lash.

Questions about on the lash

What does on the lash mean?
On the lash means out drinking socially; usually involving heavy alcohol consumption.
What part of speech is on the lash?
On the lash is a prepositional phrase.

Words near on the lash in the dictionary

  1. on the jump
  2. on the knocker
  3. on the ladder
  4. on the lam
  5. on the lamb
  6. on the lash
  7. on the latch
  8. on the level
  9. on the line
  10. on the lines of
  11. on the lookout

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