"tie one on" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-tie one on.ogg [Australia] Forms: ties one on [present, singular, third-person], tying one on [participle, present], tied one on [participle, past], tied one on [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} tie one on (third-person singular simple present ties one on, present participle tying one on, simple past and past participle tied one on)
  1. (idiomatic, colloquial, dated) To drink alcohol excessively, to the point of being drunk Tags: colloquial, dated, idiomatic Synonyms: hang one on Related terms: drunk
    Sense id: en-tie_one_on-en-verb-HxNf6nS1 Categories (other): English phrasal verbs with particle (on)

Inflected forms

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