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one over the eight: tags: [slang]

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1. (colloquial) During a drinking session, the drink that makes a person drunk.

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it was not agreeable to think that success or failure were in the wobbly hands of an agent who showed such unmistakable signs of having had what is technically known as one over the eight.

P. G. Wodehouse. The Girl in Blue, p.109 (1971)

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He glanced over at the corner and the slumbering man. "Had one over the eight," diagnosed Mr. Blore accurately.

Agatha Christie. And Then There Were None. p.10 (1939)