"in one's cups" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1809, Washington Irving, chapter 6, in Knickerbocker's History of New York",
          "text": "[T]he natives were an honest, social race of jolly roysterers, who had no objection to a drinking bout, and were very merry in their cups.",
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          "ref": "1852, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 21, in The Blithedale Romance",
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          "ref": "1906, E. W. Hornung, chapter 1, in The Shadow of the Rope",
          "text": "[H]ere he gambled, there he drank; and in his cups every virtue dissolved.",
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          "ref": "2006 November 17, Margaret Hawkins, “Home Alone: Blackmon photos find solitude among domestic chaos”, in Chicago Sun-Times, page NC50",
          "text": "The woman on the other hand is in her cups swigging from one wine glass while another stands at her elbow.",
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        "(idiomatic) Drunk; in the act of consuming alcohol liberally."
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