Definition of "drinking" []

• Present participle of drink. (verb)
• An act or session by which drink is consumed. (noun)

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• "Intemperate drinking is ever the result of what has been misnamed _temperate drinking_."
• "All drinkers begin socially, and this drinking is accompanied by a thousand social connotations such as I have described out of my own experience in the first part of this narrative."
• "I'd like to discuss in this article the way you "think yourself into drinking" -- what I call "drinking thinking.""