slang. [f. LUSH sb.2]
1. trans. To ply with ‘lush’ or drink; to liquor.
1821. Life D. Haggart, 18. We had lushed the coachman so neatly, that Barney was obliged to drive.
1838. Col. Hawker, Diary (1893), II. 142. To lush the Keyhavenites with four gallons of swill.
1888. E. J. Goodman, Too Curious, xxii. To lush me and feed me so as to get on my blind side.
2. intr. To drink, indulge in drink. Also to lush it.
1811. Lex. Balatronicum, Lush, to drink.
1825. C. M. Westmacott, Engl. Spy, II. 252. Smoke, take snuff, lush.
1835. Col. Hawker, Diary (1893), II. 90. The captain and his mate having … ‘lushed it’ ashore all night.
1851–61. Mayhew, Lond. Labour (1864), I. 187/2. I was out of work two or three weeks, and I certainly lushed too much.
b. trans. To drink.
1838. Dickens, O. Twist, xxxix. Some of the richest sort you ever lushed.
