Definition of drinks

"drinks" in the noun sense

1. drink

a single serving of a beverage

"I asked for a hot drink"

"likes a drink before dinner"

2. drink, drinking, boozing, drunkenness, crapulence

the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess

"drink was his downfall"

3. beverage, drink, drinkable, potable

any liquid suitable for drinking

"may I take your beverage order?"

4. drink

any large deep body of water

"he jumped into the drink and had to be rescued"

5. swallow, drink, deglutition

the act of swallowing

"one swallow of the liquid was enough"

"he took a drink of his beer and smacked his lips"

"drinks" in the verb sense

1. drink, imbibe

take in liquids

"The patient must drink several liters each day"

"The children like to drink soda"

2. hit the bottle, drink, booze, fuddle

consume alcohol

"We were up drinking all night"

3. toast, drink, pledge, salute, wassail

propose a toast to

"Let us toast the birthday girl!"

"Let's drink to the New Year"

4. drink in, drink

be fascinated or spell-bound by pay close attention to

"The mother drinks in every word of her son on the stage"

5. drink, tope

drink excessive amounts of alcohol be an alcoholic

"The husband drinks and beats his wife"

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Quotations for drinks

The man in the moon drinks claret. [ Proverb ]

As deep drinks the goose as the gander. [ Proverb ]

The ass that carries wine drinks water. [ Proverb ]

He that sips of many arts drinks of none. [ Fuller ]

The lively Diamond drinks thy purest rays.
Collected light, compact. [ Thomson ]

The sea drinks the air and the sun the sea. [ Anacreon ]

He does not deserve wine who drinks it as water. [ Bodenstedt ]

It is an ill guest that never drinks to his hostess. [ Proverb ]

Malice drinks up the greatest part of its own poison. [ Proverb ]

He loaths the spring-head and drinks the foul stream. [ Proverb ]

The Alphabet Of Success

Attend carefully to details.
Be prompt in all things.
Consider well, then decide positively.
Dare to do right, fear to do wrong.
Endure trials patiently.
Fight life's battles bravely.
Go not into the society of the vicious.
Hold your integrity sacred.
Injure not another's reputation.
Join hands only with the virtuous.
Keep your mind free from evil thoughts.
Lie not for any consideration.
Make few special acquaintances.
Never try to appear what you are not.
Observe good manners.
Pay your debts promptly.
Question not the verity of a friend.
Respect the desires of your parents.
Sacrifice money rather than principle.
Touch not, taste not, handle not intoxicating drinks.
Use your leisure for improvement.
Venture not upon the threshold of wrong.
Watch carefully over your passions.
Xtend to everyone a kindly greeting.
Yield not to discouragement.
Zealously labor for the right, and success is certain. [ Ladies Home Journal ]

He that eats well and drinks well should do his duty well. [ Proverb ]

The choleric drinks, the melancholic eats, the phlegmatic sleeps. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Freedom is the ferment of freedom.
The moistened sponge drinks up water greedily; the dry one sheds it. [ Holmes ]

Patience is the strongest of strong drinks, for it kills the giant Despair. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

The use of wine must inevitably be a steppingstone to that of stronger drinks and to intemperance. [ J. C Holbrook, D.D ]

When the husband drinks to the wife, all would be well; when the wife drinks to the husband, all is well. [ Proverb ]

O jealousy, thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue of my fresh cheek to haggard sallowness, and drinks my spirit up. [ Hannah More ]

Let there be an entire abstinence from intoxicating drinks throughout this country during the period of a single generation, and a mob would be as impossible as combustion without oxygen. [ Horace Mann ]

The herb feeds upon the juice of a good soil, and drinks in the dew of heaven as eagerly, and thrives by it as effectually, as the stalled ox that tastes everything that he eats or drinks. [ South ]

Few have borrowed more freely than Gray and Milton; but with a princely prodigality, they have repaid the obscure thoughts of others, with far brighter of their own - like the ocean, which drinks up the muddy water of the rivers from the flood, but replenishes them with the clearest from the shower. [ Colton ]

drinks in Scrabble®

The word drinks is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters drinks:

DRINKS
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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word drinks

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In drinks

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drinks in Words With Friends™

The word drinks is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters drinks:

DRINKS
(66)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word drinks

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In drinks

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Words within the letters of drinks

2 letter words in drinks (3 words)

3 letter words in drinks (10 words)

4 letter words in drinks (13 words)

5 letter words in drinks (4 words)

6 letter words in drinks (1 word)

drinks + 1 blank (1 word)

drinks + 2 blanks (4 words)

Words containing the sequence drinks

Words that start with drinks (1 word)

Words with drinks in them (1 word)

Words that end with drinks (3 words)

Word Growth involving drinks

Shorter words in drinks

in ink rink drink

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Longer words containing drinks

outdrinks

overdrinks