What does drinking mean?

Answer 1

A standard drink refers to (a) 12 ounces of beer, (b) five ounces of wine or (c) 1 & 1/2 ounces of distilled spirits.

Answer 2

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

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

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

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

5.a. To give or make (a toast).

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

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

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

8. To imbibe alcoholic liquors: They only drink socially.

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

10. A liquid that is fit for drinking; a beverage.

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

12. An alcoholic beverage, such as a cocktail or highball.

13. Excessive or habitual indulgence in alcoholic liquor.

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