hit the bottle

Questions about hit the bottle

What does hit the bottle mean?

hit the bottle means "consume alcohol".

What is another word for hit the bottle?

Close synonyms include drink, booze, fuddle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hit the bottle a common word?

hit the bottle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.