Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a drunken spree, a binge.

[1577		Misogonus in Farmer (1906) III i: What a blindation are you in!].
1918		K.F. Purdon Dinny on the Doorstep 121: Herself that’s on a great blind, those times!
1938		W. Watson Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day (2000) 146: Michael went on a blind and when the bobby was trying to run him in for being drunk and disorderly he socked him one.
1940		J. MacLaren-Ross ‘A Bit of a Smash in Madras’ Memoirs of the Forties (1984) 272: I’d been on a blind in Fenner’s with some of the boys.
1950		‘Neville Shute’ Town Like Alice 146: It’s quite possible he’s been out on a blind.
1967		J. Wynnum I’m a Jack, All Right 115: You [...] can go on a blind whenever you feel like it, with no one to answer to.
1980		J. McClure Spike Island (1981) 229: The one-off drunk. The student who gets his exams off his back and goes out on a one-night blinder.
1983		J. Byrell (con. 1959) Up the Cross 95: Mick the Muso went on one of his blinders.
1987		B. Chatwin Songlines 23: She knew when [...] to refuse payment altogether if the artist seemed set on a blinder.
1993		B. Moore Lex. of Cadet Lang. 45: blinder1 a social function especially memorable for the copious consumption of alcohol thereat.

2. an intoxicating cocktail.

1958

H.E. Bates Darling Buds of May (1985) 109: Red Bull was the blinder.