lush it up

Meanings

verblush it up (third-person singular simple present lushes it up, present participle lushing it up, simple past and past participle lushed it up)

present singular third person lushes it up · participle present lushing it up · participle past lushed it up · past lushed it up

idiomaticintransitiveslangTo drink alcohol to excess; to get drunk.
“Say, man, how you coming with Eva?” the host asked. “Fine, fine, we lushing it up.”
1962, James Baldwin, Another Country, New York, N. Y.: The Dial Press, published January 1963, page 18
Synonyms: lush, lush around, lush up

verbTo drink alcohol to excess; to get drunk.

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