crook one's elbow

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Verb

crook one's elbow (third-person singular simple present crooks one's elbow, present participle crooking one's elbow, simple past and past participle crooked one's elbow)

  1. (US, slang) To consume alcoholic drink.
    • 1950, Wonders of the Spaceways, numbers 1-6, page 30:
      His first drink went over in a gulp and Jol had the second ready for him when he set down the empty glass. Just as Nord was crooking his elbow on the second drink, a small, rat-faced man sidled up to him at the bar.
    • 2011, Richard Bird Baker, Corral Dust from Across the Big Divide:
      Once a top-hand cowboy was leaning over the mahogany of a watering hole between cattle drives, merrily crooking his elbow and painting his nose and watching his trail pay melt away, drink by drink.