drinks

nounbeverage; alcoholic beverage
verbtake in liquid

Synonyms for drinks

noun beverage; alcoholic beverage

Antonyms for drinks

food

Word Origin & History

Old English drincan "to drink," also "to swallow up, engulf" (class III strong verb; past tense dranc, past participle druncen), from Proto-Germanic *drengkan (cf. Old Saxon drinkan, Old Frisian drinka, Dutch drinken, Old High German trinkan, German trinken, Old Norse drekka, Gothic drigkan "to drink"), of uncertain origin, perhaps from a root meaning "to draw." Not found outside Germanic.

Most Indo-European words for this trace to PIE *po(i)- (cf. Greek pino, Latin biber, Irish ibim, Old Church Slavonic piti, Russian pit'; see imbibe).

The noun meaning "beverage, alcoholic beverage" was in late Old English.

To drink like a fish is first recorded 1747.

Example Sentences for drinks

Much of it, apparently, he will convert into that champagne he now drinks.

He took a couple of drinks to celebrate his approaching immunity from debt.

These drinks I accepted with gratitude, as also the cigars with which his pockets were stored.

You have them say that things are hot in the pan and you have to have drinks with names like arctic and all like that.

Not one of the crowd has enough money left to buy the drinks all round.

What drinks from the brooks and wells, and from the stones on the bank?

Let us amend it as soon as possible, only in this case let me pay for the drinks.

She drinks and drinks, and, by what I hear, cares for noucht else.

Charlie is clever, unusually clever; he drinks, his movements are suspicious.

He was standing a round of drinks and included in his invitation the man on the coal box.