Elbow-bending
[el-boh-ben-der] /ˈɛl boʊˌbɛn dər/
noun, Slang.
1.
a person fond of drinking alcoholic beverages.
noun
Drinking liquor: the gentlemanly art of refined elbow-bending
noun
A convivial person; drinker
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