English

Verb

bend (one's) elbow

1. (idiomatic) To drink alcoholic beverages, especially at a public house or bar.
   • 2002, Jacques Stephen Alexis, In the Flicker of an Eyelid, page 32

     One day is no worse than the next for El Caucho; so it's a whim when he starts bending his elbow or ties one on. When he is really "plastered," El Caucho looks grim, but he isn't really nasty.