"have a few" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "has a few",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "having a few",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "had a few",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "had a few",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "args": {
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      },
      "expansion": "have a few (third-person singular simple present has a few, present participle having a few, simple past and past participle had a few)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
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        {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1983, Jaan Kross, The Rock from the Sky,, page 118:",
          "text": "'Course, once he's had a few, the old man'll gab the hind leg off a donkey.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999 John Kaye, Stars Screaming, Atlantic Monthly Press, p119",
          "text": "\"Are you drunk?\"\n\"I've had a few.\"\n\"You sound drunk,\" Maria said."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Robert W. Wood, The Weeds of God, Omonomany, page 68:",
          "text": "I drink to be exciting. It seems I say the funniest things when I've had a few.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, James D. McCallister, King's Highway, Screecher Creature, p28:",
          "text": "The phone at the lake house rings and rings, until my father's voice, very groggy — it's the way he sounds once he's had a few — is finally heard.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To drink enough alcohol to be slightly or moderately drunk."
      ],
      "id": "en-have_a_few-en-verb-9MDFEvzy",
      "links": [
        [
          "drink",
          "drink"
        ],
        [
          "alcohol",
          "alcohol"
        ],
        [
          "slightly",
          "slightly"
        ],
        [
          "moderately",
          "moderately"
        ],
        [
          "drunk",
          "drunk"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) To drink enough alcohol to be slightly or moderately drunk."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "have a few too many"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "have a couple"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "have a few"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "has a few",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "having a few",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "had a few",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "had a few",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
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      },
      "expansion": "have a few (third-person singular simple present has a few, present participle having a few, simple past and past participle had a few)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "have a few too many"
    }
  ],
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1983, Jaan Kross, The Rock from the Sky,, page 118:",
          "text": "'Course, once he's had a few, the old man'll gab the hind leg off a donkey.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999 John Kaye, Stars Screaming, Atlantic Monthly Press, p119",
          "text": "\"Are you drunk?\"\n\"I've had a few.\"\n\"You sound drunk,\" Maria said."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Robert W. Wood, The Weeds of God, Omonomany, page 68:",
          "text": "I drink to be exciting. It seems I say the funniest things when I've had a few.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, James D. McCallister, King's Highway, Screecher Creature, p28:",
          "text": "The phone at the lake house rings and rings, until my father's voice, very groggy — it's the way he sounds once he's had a few — is finally heard.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To drink enough alcohol to be slightly or moderately drunk."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "drink",
          "drink"
        ],
        [
          "alcohol",
          "alcohol"
        ],
        [
          "slightly",
          "slightly"
        ],
        [
          "moderately",
          "moderately"
        ],
        [
          "drunk",
          "drunk"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) To drink enough alcohol to be slightly or moderately drunk."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "have a couple"
    }
  ],
  "word": "have a few"
}