Thread: "drink too much alcohol"

In Russian - "напиваться"
Is there a more interesting expression for this, I mean except "drink too much alcohol"
In Lingvo i found "booze up"

Originally Posted by J.V.

In Russian - "напиваться"
Is there a more interesting expression for this, I mean except "drink too much alcohol"
In Lingvo i found "booze up"

to get sloshed

to get hammered

to get loaded

to get liquored up

to get pi55ed (British)

to get wasted (works for drugs, too)

to get sh1tfaced

to get drunk

to get tipsy

to get schnockered

to get stupid

to get smashed


And when you overdo it...

to pray to the porcelain goddess.

also to get wankЭrd

Originally Posted by raskolnik

also to get wankЭrd

"Wankered" would be British, too.


And a few more colorful drinking-related phrases:

Beergoggles: how your vision is altered to find members of the opposite sex more attractive when you're drunk: "He was wearing beergoggles last night."

To chug: to drink a beer really fast. Also can say "to slam" or "to pound".

Dead soldiers: empty beer bottles or empty shot glasses, lined up on the bar.

Munchies: food cravings caused by alcohol or marijuana.

Bedspins: when you're drunk and laying on your bed, and it feels like the world is spinning.

Synonyms for "to vomit": puke, hurl, heave, spew, yurk, york, retch, barf, ralph, blow chunks, pray to the porcelain goddess, lose your lunch.

and 'to chuck up'

You seem to have lots of experience!

What about "boozing up?"

Originally Posted by raskolnik

and 'to chuck up'

Or to upchuck!

Originally Posted by J.V.

You seem to have lots of experience!

What about "boozing up?"

I've heard it, but it's not common, not among people younger than 50. We don't use the word "booze" that much anymore. More common is "liquor", "alcohol", "drinks". For "boozed up", we'd say "liquored up", or use one of the other phrases above.

I can't believe the Brits didn't add "soused" to their list.

Originally Posted by mike

I can't believe the Brits didn't add "soused" to their list.

besotted, crushed, high (now usually refers to drugs)...

I forgot the great Yiddish word: to get shikkered!

smash it right up - going to go on a mamoth drinking session. oh and also "get plasterd"

also, after you're "gone" or "obliterated," you sometimes "yak"
which means when you're really drunk you puke

i dont know if anybody else uses this teram but i do! tactical spew = making your self sick when you've outdone yourself. sometimes mid way through the night you need a tactial spew so you can carry on drinking.

Originally Posted by raskolnik

i dont know if anybody else uses this teram but i do! tactical spew = making your self sick when you've outdone yourself. sometimes mid way through the night you need a tactial spew so you can carry on drinking.

Haven't used the term, but I have done it. Only I did it to keep from getting arrested!! (It worked!)

I remembered one thing. In my university group my friends, when they want to say about somebody that he drunk much alcohol, they say simply "он синий", "мы синие" etc. I never heard this term in other places, so I'm wondering, have somebody of Russian users heard such expression?

I've never heard or used it.
BUT
1. It may me a slang word, and I'm far from slang.
2. Probably this word was made up by a relatvely small group of people (students of University, for ex.), and nobody really knows of it.

By the way, He is blue - Он голубой - means He is a gay.

absolutely smashed out of a tree

Microsoft: How pissed are you today?

User Input: as drunk as the most sober irishman!!

Meaning: VERY DRUNK!!

Did anybody read "Потерянный дом, или разговоры с милордом" by Александр Житинский?
As far as I remember, there was a HUGE list of terms for drinking

Originally Posted by Tu-160

I remembered one thing. In my university group my friends, when they want to say about somebody that he drunk much alcohol, they say simply "он синий", "мы синие" etc. I never heard this term in other places, so I'm wondering, have somebody of Russian users heard such expression?

I haven't remeber where (in what sentense I have heard them) but it exist too. Of cause it is slang, but a lot of words before were slang too.