beer up

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beer up (third-person singular simple present beers up, present participle beering up, simple past and past participle beered up)

  1. (dialectal or US, intransitive) To drink a lot of beer.
    Coordinate terms: liquor up, gin up, wine up
    • 1885, William Bury Westall, Ralph Norbreck's Trust[1], page 66:
      "Nay I didn't. I found th' cart and horses at 'The Cock' door, and Cracker was inside, beering up."
    • 1947, J. G. Taylor Spink, Judge Landis and Twenty-Five Years of Baseball[2], page 121:
      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.
    • 2008, Robert W. Proctor, Even Gods Walk in Shadows[3], page 101:
      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.

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