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Meaning of beer up | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

To drink a lot of beer; especially, to get drunk on beer.

US, dialectal, intransitive

Examples

“"Nay I didn't. I found th' cart and horses at 'The Cock' door, and Cracker was inside, beering up."”
“John Calhoun Benton, a South Carolinian now deceased, was no white lily; he frequently was disciplined by his managers for beering up, and by 1922 the majority of National League club owners wanted no more of him.”
“2005, "Jon Sharpe" (Ed Gorman), The Trailsman #280: Texas Tart, unnumbered page, Before returning to the cabin, he spent nearly an hour in a saloon beering up for the ride back.”
“He stoked his energy for each evening's entrance to the club by beering-up yet one more time at only two-bits a Coors in The Mariposa.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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