Another way to say “alcohol”

The woozy face emoji 🥴. Signals drunk, overwhelmed, thirsty, or "I'm in trouble" depending on context. Deployed heavily on thirst comments under hot photos, which is why the emoji is simultaneously innocuous and loaded.

A 75-day mental-toughness challenge: two 45-min workouts daily (one outdoors), a strict diet, no alcohol, a gallon of water, ten pages of a non-fiction book, and a progress photo. Missing a single item resets day one.

A thin beef patty smashed flat on a hot griddle for max crust. The 2020s's burger of choice — In-N-Out style that took over hipster burger joints nationwide.

A lifestyle of reconsidering your relationship with alcohol — not necessarily committing to sobriety, but questioning drinking culture. Drove the mocktail and non-alcoholic beer boom.

Showing up to the office just long enough to swipe in, grab a coffee, be seen by your manager, and leave. Return-to-office malicious compliance. Badged in, cold-brew in hand, photos taken for the Slack channel, back home by 11am. The RTO mandate gets a pulse but not a pulse check.

British: a casual, spontaneous beer at the pub. Always framed as innocent despite rarely being just one. "Cheeky pint on the way home" is the overture to a 6-pint Tuesday that ends in questionable kebabs and an 11am alarm you'll snooze through twice.

Cherries emoji — sweet alone, suggestive in pairs. A single 🍒 is usually literal (a fruit, a cocktail, a cute aesthetic). 🍒🍒 in a bio or caption often signals flirtation, innuendo, or a specific "hot girl summer" register. Context dictates.

The default cocktail of any city bar's 2020s menu — jalapeño-infused tequila, lime, a tajín rim. The fact that every bar carries one is itself a cultural marker. Ordering one is not a personality; getting offended when they don't have one is.

Being in a state of peak performance where everything is clicking — no errors, no wasted moves, fully locked in. Derived from the sporting sense of acing it. Can also describe someone operating in an emotionally detached, zero-distraction headspace.

Describing someone or a fictional character who reads as asexual or aromantic based on their vibe, behavior, or how they engage with romance — even without explicit confirmation. Widely used in fan communities to flag characters whose arc or personality aligns with the asexual spectrum.

An accy god is that one person in the group chat who seems cosmically blessed when it comes to accumulator bets — the one whose five-fold lands on a random Tuesday, who called a 20/1 shot in the fifth leg, and who somehow turns a tenner into a night out every other week. It's equal parts admiration and suspicion because nobody should be this consistently right. Accy gods are mythologised in WhatsApp groups and football forums, their slips screenshot and shared like relics of a miracle.

The recurring stretch of time — often Q1 or around major news events — when advertisers pull budgets and YouTube monetization collapses into chaos for creators. Adpocalypse szn is treated with the same weary inevitability as tax season: you know it's coming, you dread it, and you're never actually ready. Creator forums go into overdrive, CPM graphs look like stock market crashes, and everyone's recommending diversifying to Patreon or Twitch. The phrase captures the cyclical, almost seasonal nature of YouTube's advertiser sensitivity drama.

Looksmaxxing mode is the state of being actively and intensely focused on maximizing your physical appearance — every decision filtered through the lens of how it affects your looks. You're tracking sleep for skin quality, cutting alcohol, doing facial exercises, researching your facial structure. It's a temporary or ongoing headspace where aesthetic optimization becomes the primary operating priority. Online it's used both earnestly by people deep in self-improvement and ironically by those poking fun at the obsessive specificity the community brings to what is, at its core, just trying to look better.

Geordie dialect for absolutely paralytic — so drunk you can barely stand, speak, or function. It's the Tyneside upgrade of "wrecked," deployed when "drunk" just doesn't cover the damage. Newcastle on a Saturday night produces a lot of pallatic people. The word carries a kind of affectionate judgement: you're not angry at the pallatic person, you're just noting the facts.

Red Ned is Australian slang for cheap, rough red wine — the kind that comes in a cask or a bottle with no pretensions, and leaves you regretting it the next morning. The name is affectionate in the way Australians name anything they have a complicated relationship with. It sits alongside plonk and goon in the vocabulary of budget drinking.

A sweet fortified wine from South Africa, typically made by arresting fermentation early with grape spirit so that residual sugar remains high. It is richer and sweeter than most sherries and is drunk as a dessert wine or aperitif. The name is well established in South African wine culture.

In Indian English, a 'wineshop' is a liquor store — a retail outlet licensed to sell alcohol, not necessarily limited to wine. The term is widely used across India despite the shop typically selling beer, spirits, and local liquors as well. It carries a slightly ironic quality given that wine is rarely the primary product. In its universal sense, a wineshop is simply a shop that sells wine, but the Indian usage extends the meaning broadly.

An Australian and New Zealand adjective meaning relating to, characteristic of, or resembling a wowser — that is, a killjoy, puritan, or moral busybody who objects to others' pleasures. 'Wowserian' attitudes or policies are those that prioritise propriety and restraint over enjoyment, especially regarding alcohol, sex, or gambling.

A clear distilled alcoholic liquor made from grain mash.

A pale ale brewed using kilned malts and roasted barley, giving the beer a red colour.

Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages on a regular basis.

Drunk; very intoxicated. Quintessentially Scottish. "Got pure blootered last night."

(AAVE, slang) Intoxicated on alcohol or drugs; stoned.

(slang) Drunk.

(slang, US politics) One who believed that Donald Trump was shorter and heavier than suggested by his presidential physical examination in 2018.

(slang, idiomatic) Low spirits; depression.

(internet slang, neologism) Posting of a flounce, or melodramatic announcement of one's departure from a group or forum.

(slang, humorous) Time for a beer (the first of the day or otherwise).

(slang, humorous) The illness caused by drinking too much alcohol; a hangover.

(slang, humorous) Wine or other spirits of low quality, thought to cause a headache.

(South Africa, slang) Carling Black Label, a brand of beer.

(South African English) Very raw young wine, usually with sediment.

(South Africa) Cheap wine sold in a bag.

(South Africa, rugby) One of the forwards at the rear of a scrum formation who controls the ball at the back of the scrum and links to the back line.

(Canada, Ontario) A liquor store operated by the Liquor Control Board of Ontario.

(US, archaic, informal, derogatory) A person who drinks alcohol in saloons.

(musical instrument) Any of several traditional Chinese musical instruments, most commonly the seven-stringed instrument more specifically called the guqin.

(US, especially Los Angeles) A free, expressive and energetic style of hip-hop dancing.

(chiefly, US, dated, humorous, genericized trademark) Any home-brewed distilled grain alcohol, especially one with a very high concentration of alcohol (such as 90-some percent, that is, 180-some proof); but generally not one rife with impurities or adulterants.

(US) A bonus.

(US) A whiskey with a beer chaser.

(US, cooking) A cooked dish made by standing a prepared chicken upright on a partially filled can of beer and cooking it slowly in a barbecue or oven, so that the beer evaporates and permeates the meat.

(US, _, standard of identity) Grape wine, mixed with brandy or alcohol, with natural flavors (including herbs), and optionally with caramel for color, that matches the general description of aperitif wine but not of vermouth.

(especially, Ireland) A small measure of spirits; .

(chiefly, Scotland) A homeless drunk.

(Scotland) Drunk.

(AU, slang) A tantrum.

(Australia, NZ) Wine that is sealed in a plastic bladder and packaged in a cardboard box.

(Australia, informal) A 2.25 litre bottle of beer, today made principally as a tourist novelty.

(AU, colloquial) A young woman employed to serve alcoholic beverages to the audience at cricket matches, often dressed in a skimpy costume.

(Australia) An alcohol test; the measurement of the blood alcohol level.

(idiomatic, Australia) Beer.

(Australia, rhyming slang) Pissed (drunk).

(childish, or, colloquial, UK) Delicious.

(British) (of a meeting) Having a quorum; having the minimum number of people necessary to conduct business and to cast votes.

(UK, humorous) Not bad; implying that life is not bad and one should not complain about it.

(idiomatic, usually, preceded by the and sometimes capitalized) The afterlife, as a supernatural realm inhabited by spirits of deceased people.

(UK, taxation) An alcoholic drink made from fermentation, other than grape wine, beer, black beer, spirits or cider, for the purposes of excise tax.

(British) A person (especially a young male) who behaves in a violent manner when drunk.

(transitive) To drink an alcoholic beverage swiftly or often; to finish a beverage.

(beer, South Australia) A pint of beer.

(British) An obscure and intentionally preposterous sport in which teams take turns to dance while avoiding a "dwile" (beer-soaked cloth) thrown by their opponents.

(transitive) To write one's signature on the back of a cheque, or other negotiable instrument, when transferring it to a third party, or cashing it.

(UK, Scotland, dialect) cheerful or mirthful, as after good eating or drinking.

(British, Ireland, Australia) An alcoholic drink that looks and tastes like a soft drink.

(US politics, slang, derogatory) Donald Trump, American president.

(UK, slang, archaic) Gin.

(countable, singular or plural, musical instrument) A shaken musical instrument (an idiophone) made from the jawbone of an animal and shaken such that the teeth vibrate in their sockets to produce sound.

(UK, slang) Drunk.

(UK, Canada, slang) very drunk; inebriated.

(Ireland, slang) Very drunk.

(dated, slang) drunk.

(British, slang, obsolete) (A nickname for) gin, or a particular kind of gin.

(US, naval, _, slang) A restricted diet of bread and water, imposed as a disciplinary measure.

(US, slang) To become slightly inebriated, but not yet quite drunk.

(British, slang) Very drunk.

(US, slang) A drink designed to look like whisky (or some other alcoholic drink) but which is actually cold tea or similar, as drunk by a woman trying to entice men in a club, bar etc to spend more money.

(UK, Irish, Commonwealth, slang) Unpleasant, especially in a sarcastic, grumpy or haughty manner.

(Australia, slang) Beer.

(US, slang) whiskey.