beer up

present singular third person beers up · participle present beering up · participle past beered up · past beered up

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

   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.

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   "Nay I didn't. I found th' cart and horses at 'The Cock' door, and Cracker was inside, beering up."

   1885, William Bury Westall, Ralph Norbreck's Trust, page 66

   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.

   1947, J. G. Taylor Spink, Judge Landis and Twenty-Five Years of Baseball, page 121

   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.

   2008, Robert W. Proctor, Even Gods Walk in Shadows, page 101