Meanings
- UKslangOut drinking socially; usually involving heavy alcohol consumption.
There's endless coverage of drunken "ladettes" out on the lash, young girls being sick into gutters, lying in streets, smoking, getting pregnant, looking gormless, telling people with research clipboards that "all they wanna be is famous, innit".
2011 January 9, Barbara Ellen, “Too many of us treat young white women as trash”, in The ObserverSynonyms: on the razz, on the razzle-dazzle
Synonyms & antonyms
prepositional phraseOut drinking socially; usually involving heavy alcohol consumption.
Origin
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on the lash. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/on%20the%20lash
“on the lash.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/on%20the%20lash. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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