drinking

Etymology

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of drink

noun

  1. An act or session by which drink is consumed, especially alcoholic beverages.
    Some say drinking is a vice.
    At home there were other studies and much reading; many tea drinkings on the lawn, and even breakfastings, which she thought pleasanter still. 1853, Susan Bogert Warner, The wide, wide world, page 372

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