English

Alternative forms

• drinking bout

Noun

drinking-bout ‎(plural drinking-bouts)

1. A period of drinking, especially one involving intensive alcohol consumption.
   • 1995, "City Haunts: A Ghostly Guide," New York Times, 29 Oct., p. 37.

     The poet Dylan Thomas, a regular, died after a drinking bout there in 1953.

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References

• "drinking bout" in the Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.