"beer up" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: beers up [present, singular, third-person], beering up [participle, present], beered up [participle, past], beered up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} beer up (third-person singular simple present beers up, present participle beering up, simple past and past participle beered up)
  1. (dialectal or US, intransitive) To drink a lot of beer. Tags: intransitive Related terms: beered-up [adjective]

Inflected forms

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