词汇 | pub crawling |
词源 | pub crawling. A mostly British term meaning “to frequent one pub after another,” drinking as you go, for at least a night, until you are reduced to stumbling if not crawling or worse. Partridge in his Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (1961) calls a pub-crawl “a liquorish peregrination from bar to bar” and traces its first appearance in print to about 1910. |
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