gargle v.
to have a drink.
![]() | Sporting Times 3 Aug. 5/5: We gargled [F&H]. | |
![]() | Hooligan Nights 37: Young Alf, being about to gargle, set down his glass. | |
![]() | Sun. Times (Perth) 1 Jan. 4/7: He’ll drop his pals who gargle much / And take to psalms and psalters. | |
![]() | Marvel III:55 3: Deuce take me, man, why don’t you gargle? | |
![]() | Two and Three 4 Feb. [synd. col.] Down in Georgia they gargle near-beer. | |
![]() | Red Wind (1946) 173: We’ll go to my place and gargle. | ‘Goldfish’ in|
![]() | Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). | |
![]() | I’m a Jack, All Right 36: You’ve got a bloody big hangover from gargling. | |
![]() | Ridgey-Didge Oz Jack Lang 11: Lighting up an African he gargled on slowly. | |
![]() | Clockers 496: That bastard used to gargle down a fifth of scotch a night. |