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crook one's elbow

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

To consume alcoholic drink.

US, slang

Examples

His first drink went over in a gulp and Jol had the second ready for him when he set down the empty glass. Just as Nord was crooking his elbow on the second drink, a small, rat-faced man sidled up to him at the bar.”
Once a top-hand cowboy was leaning over the mahogany of a watering hole between cattle drives, merrily crooking his elbow and painting his nose and watching his trail pay melt away, drink by drink.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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