Definition of "drink-money" [drink-money]

• Money given to buy liquor to drink; hence, a fee or gratuity. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "There was paying of bills and shaking of hands, and saddling of horses, and harnessing of carriages, and distributing of drink-money."
• "Before we quitted the ship, we were obliged to gratify the cabin-boy for his attendance, and to give drink-money to the sailors."
• "Rudin crept out of the cart, paid the peasant (who did not bow to him, and kept shaking the coins in the palm of his hand a long while — evidently there was too little drink-money) and himself carried the portmanteau into the posting-station."