Addict/User of Alcohol
- alkie
- boozer
- jake
- lush
- piss-head
- soak
Alcoholic Drinks
- amber nectar – beer
- bevvy
- booze
- brewski – beer
- hardstuff
- sauce
- sherbet – beer
- vino – wine
Intoxicated
- addled
- aled up
- bladdered
- blootered
- blotto
- bobbinsed
- bouncing
- Brahms and Liszt – rhyming slang on pissed
- drunk as a skunk
- fuddled
- gatted
- half-cut
- half pissed
- half seas over
- hammered
- high as a kite
- kaylied
- lagged
- langered
- leathered
- legless
- loaded
- mashed
- mullered
- off one’s box/chump/face/head/tree
- one over the eight
- out of one’s box/chump/face/head/tree
- palatic
- paralytic
- pickled
- pie-eyed
- pissed
- pissed as a coot/fart/newt
- plastered
- rat-arsed
- rat faced
- ratted
- roaring (drunk)
- sauced
- shedded
- shit faced
- smashed
- soused
- sozzled
- squiffy
- sloshed
- steamboats
- steaming
- stewed
- stinking
- stocious
- stoned
- tanked up
- three sheets to the wind
- tiddly
- tight
- trashed
- trolleyed
- wellied
- wrecked
Miscellaneous
- a swift half – a quick drink
- bender – a drinking spree
- bend one’s elbow – to have a drink
- boozer – a drinking establishment
- liquid lunch – drinks instead of food at lunchtime
- hair of the dog – a drink to cure a hangover
- morning after the night before – a hangover
- on the piss – a drinking spree
- on the wagon – abstaining from alcohol