Green’s Dictionary of Slang

cabaret v.

(US drugs) to get extremely intoxicated.

[US]W. Motley Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1959) 131: Only he and Extra Black Johnson could cabaret — have their morning and evening fix and then take some whenever they felt like taking off and really getting charged up. [Ibid.] 133: Mee, man, I has money and I had that old Horse every day. Man, we used to cabaret in there!