hoist a few



hoist a few

  (American informal)
to drink several glasses of beer or other alcoholic drink We stopped at Donovan's on the way home and hoisted a few.
See also: few, hoist

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Shadiya-Arabic
Cyrillesee-REELFrench
IdaIE-də (English), EE-dah (German, Swedish, Danish, Dutch, Italian)English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Hungarian, Slovene
Visvaldas-Lithuanian
Carlisle[ka:'lail]
Feodor-Russian