bend (one's)/the elbow

bend (one's)/the elbow

To drink alcohol, perhaps excessively. Come bend your elbow at the bar with us tonight! If you're this hung-over, you must have really bent the elbow at the party last night.

See also: bend, elbow

bend one's elbow

 and bend the elbow; lift one's elbow

to take a drink of an alcoholic beverage; to drink alcohol to excess. He's down at the tavern, bending his elbow. Paul gets lots of exercise. I saw him bend his elbow thirty times at a bar yesterday.

See also: bend, elbow

bend your elbow

drink alcohol. North American

See also: bend, elbow

bend one’s elbow

and bend the elbow and lift one’s elbow

tv. to take a drink of an alcoholic beverage; to drink alcohol to excess. He’s down at the tavern, bending his elbow. If you didn’t spend so much time lifting your elbow, you’d get more done.

See also: bend, elbow

bend the elbow

verb

See bend one’s elbow

See also: bend, elbow

bend (one's) elbow

Slang

To drink alcoholic beverages.

See also: bend, elbow