1. Take in liquids
   "The children like to drink soda"; "The patient must drink several litres each day";
   - imbibe
    
2. Consume alcohol
   "We were up drinking all night";
   - hit the bottle [informal], booze [informal], fuddle
    
3. Drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic
   "The husband drinks and beats his wife";
   - tope [archaic]
    
4. Propose a toast to
   "Let's drink to the New Year";
   - toast, pledge, salute, wassail [archaic]
    
5. Be fascinated or spell-bound by; pay close attention to
   "The mother drinks in every word of her son on the stage";
   - drink in

1. A single serving of a beverage
   "I asked for a hot drink"; "likes a drink before dinner"
    
2. Any liquid suitable for drinking
   "may I take your drink order?";
   - beverage, drinkable, potable [formal]
    
3. The act of swallowing
   "he took a drink of his beer and smacked his lips";
   - swallow, deglutition [technical]
    
4. The act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess
   "drink was his downfall";
   - drinking, boozing [informal], drunkenness, crapulence
    
5. Any large deep body of water
   "he jumped into the drink and had to be rescued"

Derived forms: drank, drinks, drunk, drinking

See also: belt down [informal], drink up

Type of: absorb, body of water, consume, consumption, engross, fete, fête, food, have, helping, honor [US], honour [Brit, Cdn], immerse, ingest, ingestion, intake, intemperance, intemperateness, liquid, nutrient, plunge, portion, reward, serving, squander, steep, take, take in, uptake, ware [archaic], waste, water

Encyclopedia: Drink, Drink, Drink