English

Verb

beer up ‎(third-person singular simple present beers up, present participle beering up, simple past and past participle beered up)

1. (dialectal or US) To drink a lot of beer.
   • 1885, William Bury Westall, Ralph Norbreck's Trust, page 66,

     "Nay I didn't. I found th' cart and horses at 'The Cock' door, and Cracker was inside, beering up."

   • 1947, J. G. Taylor Spink, Judge Landis and Twenty-Five Years of Baseball, page 121,

     John Calhoun Benton, a South Carolinian now deceased, was no white lily; he frequently was disciplined by his managers for beering up, and by 1922 the majority of National League club owners wanted no more of him.

   • 2005, "Jon Sharpe" (Ed Gorman), The Trailsman #280: Texas Tart, unnumbered page,

     Before returning to the cabin, he spent nearly an hour in a saloon beering up for the ride back.

   • 2008, Robert W. Proctor, Even Gods Walk in Shadows, page 101,

     He stoked his energy for each evening's entrance to the club by beering-up yet one more time at only two-bits a Coors in The Mariposa.

See also

• beered-up (adjective)