sluice one's bolt

verb

To drink alcohol.

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Meanings

verbsluice one's bolt (third-person singular simple present sluices one's bolt, present participle sluicing one's bolt, simple past and past participle sluiced one's bolt)

present singular third person sluices one's bolt · participle present sluicing one's bolt · participle past sluiced one's bolt · past sluiced one's bolt

  1. UKobsoleteslangTo drink alcohol.

    When his heart has been the least thing warmed with sluicing his bolt and cocking his broseley, he has told us strange stories of foreign countries, so that even old Zingary has turned up the whites of his eyes.

    1845, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of London
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APA

sluice one's bolt. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sluice%20one's%20bolt

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Chicago

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