DRINK UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does drink up mean? 

• DRINK UP (verb)
  The verb DRINK UP has 1 sense:

1. drink to the last drop

  Familiarity information: DRINK UP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRINK UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Drink to the last drop

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

drain the cup; drink up

Context example:

drink up--there's more wine coming

Hypernyms (to "drink up" is one way to...):

drink; imbibe (take in liquids)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

The dwarf was soundly whipt, and as a farther punishment, forced to drink up the bowl of cream into which he had thrown me: neither was he ever restored to favour; for soon after the queen bestowed him on a lady of high quality, so that I saw him no more, to my very great satisfaction; for I could not tell to what extremities such a malicious urchin might have carried his resentment.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

There was a dog howling all night under my window, which may have had something to do with it; or it may have been the paprika, for I had to drink up all the water in my carafe, and was still thirsty.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)