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Definition of Drink up
1. Verb. Drink to the last drop. "Drink up--there's more wine coming"
Definition of Drink up
1. Verb. to finish one's drink. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drink Up
Literary usage of Drink up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1852)
"asserts that “ to drink up was commonly used for simply to drink.” Ma. ...
HKS CAUSTON, as he afterwards signs himself, denies that drink up can be used of ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Executors and Administrators by Edward Vaughan Williams, Walter Vere Vaughan Williams (1877)
"By the common law of England, if a condition precedent is impossible, as to drink
up all the water in the sea, ..."
3. A Year of Consolation by Fanny Kemble (1847)
"... tho' it seem to fall, Let it not, oh, my Father! drink up all My spirit's
sap—so from this fate shall grow The palm branch for my hand and for my brow, ..."
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