Slang for Alcohol

Addict/Heavy User of Alcohol

  • alkie – noun.
  • boozer – noun.
  • jake – noun.
  • lush – noun.
  • piss-head – noun.
  • soak – noun.

Alcoholic Drinks

  • amber nectar – noun. beer
  • bevvy – noun.
  • booze – noun.
  • brew – noun. beer
  • brewski – noun. beer
  • Britney – noun. beer. rhyming slang on Britney Spears
  • hardstuff – noun. usually spirit based drinks
  • jar – noun. a pint of beer
  • sauce – noun.
  • scoop – noun. pint of beer
  • sherbet – noun. beer
  • vino – noun. wine
  • wobbly pop – noun. beer

Intoxicated

  • addled – adj.
  • airlocked – adj.
  • aled (up) – adj.
  • ball-bagged – adj.
  • battered – adj.
  • bladdered – adj.
  • blootered – adj.
  • blotto – adj.
  • bobbinsed – adj.
  • bollocksed – adj.
  • bouncing – adj.
  • boxed – adj.
  • Brahms and Liszt – adj. rhyming slang on pissed
  • cabbaged – adj.
  • caned – adj.
  • cunted – adj.
  • cunt faced – adj.
  • destroyed – adj.
  • drunk as a skunk – adj.
  • elephant’s (trunk) – adj. rhyming slang on drunk
  • fuddled – adj.
  • gatted – adj.
  • half-cut – adj.
  • half pissed – adj.
  • half seas over – adj.
  • hammered – adj.
  • high as a kite – adj.
  • jaked – adj.
  • kaylied – adj.
  • lagered up – adj. intoxicated by lager
  • lagged – adj.
  • langered – adj.
  • larruped – adj.
  • lean – adj.
  • leathered – adj.
  • legless – adj.
  • loaded – adj.
  • mashed – adj.
  • minced – adj.
  • mortalled – adj.
  • mullered – adj.
  • munted – adj.
  • off it – adj.
  • off one’s box – adj.
  • off one’s chump – adj.
  • off one’s face – adj.
  • off one’s head – adj.
  • off one’s nut – adj.
  • off one’s tree – adj.
  • off one’s trolley – adj.
  • out of it – adj.
  • one over the eight – adj.
  • out of one’s box – adj.
  • out of one’s head – adj.
  • out of one’s tree – adj.
  • palatic – adj.
  • paralytic – adj.
  • pickled – adj.
  • pie-eyed – adj.
  • pissed – adj.
  • pissed as a coot/fart/newt – adj.
  • plastered – adj.
  • rat-arsed – adj.
  • rat faced – adj.
  • ratted – adj.
  • ripped – adj.
  • roaring (drunk) – adj.
  • sauced – adj.
  • shedded – adj.
  • shit faced – adj.
  • smashed – adj.
  • soused – adj.
  • sozzled – adj.
  • squiffy – adj.
  • slaughtered – adj.
  • sloshed – adj.
  • steamboats – adj.
  • steaming – adj.
  • stewed – adj.
  • stinking – adj.
  • stocious – adj.
  • stoned – adj.
  • tanked up – adj.
  • three sheets to the wind – adj.
  • tiddly – adj.
  • tight – adj.
  • trashed – adj.
  • trolleyed – adj.
  • twatted – adj.
  • twat faced – adj.
  • wankered – adj.
  • wasted – adj.
  • wazzocked – adj.
  • well gone – adj.
  • wellied – adj.
  • wrecked – adj.

Miscellaneous

  • a swift half – noun. a quick drink
  • bender – noun. a drinking spree
  • bend one’s elbow – vrb phrs. to have a drink
  • boozer – noun. a drinking establishment
  • Dutch courage – noun. a drink that provides temporary bravery
  • fall off the wagon – vrb phrs. to abruptly start drinking again a period of abstinance
  • Larry Lightweight – noun. a person easily intoxicated
  • liquid lunch – noun. drinks instead of food at lunchtime
  • hair of the dog – noun. a drink to cure a hangover
  • morning after the night before – noun. a hangover
  • on the piss – noun. a drinking spree
  • on the wagon – phrs. abstaining from alcohol
  • whirlies – noun. dizziness induced by excessive intoxication