subs. (vulgar).—A debauch; by implication, a drunkard. ON THE DRUNK = ‘on the drink,’ i.e., drinking for days on end.
1871. Philadelphia Inquirer, 6 July. It seems that Gamble went on a DRUNK last Monday evening.
1879. G. R. SIMS, Dagonet Ballads (‘Told to the Missionary’). I was out on the DRUNK and caught it—lor, what a cuss is drink!
[Among other meridians are drunk as a brewer’s fan; drunk as Bacchus; drunk as Chloe; drunk as the devil; drunk as hell; drunk as buggery; drunk as a Gosport fiddler; drunk as a fly; drunk as he (or she) can stick (or hang together); drunk as a lord; drunk as an owl (American, a biled owl); drunk as a tapster; drunk as a piper; blind drunk; crying drunk; pissing drunk; dead drunk; so drunk that you can’t see a hole through a ladder; drunk as blazes; and so drunk that he opens his shirt collar to piss; tumbling drunk.]
DRUNK AS DAVY’S SOW.—Excessively drunk.—See DAVY’S SOW.
