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sluices one's bolt

sluices one's bolt is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sluice one's bolt.

Meaning of sluice one's bolt

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

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What is sluices one's bolt the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Sluices one's bolt is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sluice one's bolt.

Words near sluices one's bolt in the dictionary

  1. sluicer
  2. sluiceries
  3. sluicers
  4. sluicery
  5. sluices
  6. sluices one's bolt
  7. sluices out
  8. sluiceway
  9. sluiceways
  10. sluicing
  11. sluicing one's bolt

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