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sluice one's bolt

sluice one's bolt verb: to drink alcohol.

Verb

sluice one's bolt (third-person singular simple present sluices one's bolt, present participle sluicing one's bolt, simple past and past participle sluiced one's bolt)

  1. (UK, obsolete, slang) To drink alcohol.
    • When his heart has been the least thing warmed with sluicing his bolt and cocking his broseley, he has told us strange stories of foreign countries, so that even old Zingary has turned up the whites of his eyes.1845, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of London

Forms of sluice one's bolt

third-person singular presentsluices one's bolt
present participlesluicing one's bolt
past participlesluiced one's bolt
pastsluiced one's bolt

Questions about sluice one's bolt

What does sluice one's bolt mean?
Sluice one's bolt means to drink alcohol.
What part of speech is sluice one's bolt?
Sluice one's bolt is a verb.
What is the past tense of sluice one's bolt?
The past tense of sluice one's bolt is sluiced one's bolt.

Words near sluice one's bolt in the dictionary

  1. sluice
  2. sluice box
  3. sluice boxes
  4. sluice gate
  5. sluice gates
  6. sluice one's bolt
  7. sluice out
  8. sluice valve
  9. sluice-box
  10. sluice-boxes
  11. sluice-gate

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