drink: meaning and definitions

To salute a person or an occasion with a toast: We will drink to your continued success.

Slang A body of water; the sea: The hatch cover slid off the boat and into the drink.

To take into the mouth and swallow (a liquid).

To swallow the liquid contents of (a vessel): drank a cup of tea.

To take in or soak up; absorb: drank the fresh air; spongy earth that drank up the rain.

To take in eagerly through the senses or intellect: drank in the beauty of the day.

To give or make (a toast).

To toast (a person or an occasion, for example): We'll drink your health.

To bring to a specific state by drinking alcoholic liquors: drank our sorrows away.

To swallow liquid: drank noisily; drink from a goblet.

To imbibe alcoholic liquors: They only drink socially.

A liquid that is fit for drinking; a beverage.

An amount of liquid swallowed: took a long drink from the fountain.

An alcoholic beverage, such as a cocktail or highball.

Excessive or habitual indulgence in alcoholic liquor.

Chiefly Southern U.S. See soft drink. See Regional Note at tonic.