tie one on

1. Become intoxicated; go on a drinking spree. For example, They went out and really tied one on. The precise allusion here—what it is one ties on—is unclear. [Slang; mid-1900s]

Example Sentences

Their mentor or surrogate mentor showed the teens how to “tie one on.”

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Smith is a Seattle Police officer and attended the Tie One On luncheon as a high school senior.

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It’s 2022-23 Project M.I.S.T.E.R. program culminated this month with its 32nd annual Tie One On luncheon at the Fairmont Olympic Hotel, with each teen receiving a necktie designed by some of the students in the group.

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It is not exactly shocking news to consumers of mainstream media to hear Republicans on Capitol Hill like to tie one on.

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She could not resist a good party, her daughters said, and even in recent years she liked to tie one on weekly with her girlfriends.

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