Noun
Alcoholic drinks consumed before a party, pub crawl or other social event.
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Predrinks will still remain the best option for myself ... I didn't stock up a fully equipped bar with a selection of each of my favourite spirits and liquers and beers for nothing :)
It's the only country I have been in where everybody, and I do mean everybody, arrives at the pub in a state of total intoxication and proceeds to drinking like fish. The predrinks are done as the off sales prices are reasonable whereas bar prices caused me to nearly faint but arriving drunk numbs that effect.
A session of pre-drinking, often involving drinking games.
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Neither Bob nor Dorothy showed up for predrinks at the producer′s home.
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I was thinking to have had an initial predrinks meeting-up phase in the North-End pub (everybody knows where that is,right?) starting at 18:00, and then have had dinner around seven fifteen at the Illegale, and after that have gone back to the North-End.
Predrinks at Slug and Lettice^([sic]), very near Canary Wharf Jubilee Line station from 7pm, leaving 7.30pm(ish) to make our way over to Crossharbour.