soak



soak

1. in. to drink heavily; to get drunk. (see also soaked.) The two old ladies put on their coats and went out to soak.
2. n. a drinking bout. Both guys declined to go out and stayed home and enjoyed a soak in front of the TV.
3. n. a drunkard. Some old soak lay moaning in the gutter.
4. tv. to overcharge someone; to extort money from someone. They soaked me for twenty dollars for the parts, but at least it runs now.
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Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Filbert-Eastern African
Natacha-French, Portuguese
ÁLmosAHL-moshHungarian
Blackburn['blækbə:n]
SieghardZEEK-hahrtGerman
Harun-Arabic, Turkish, Bosnian