alcoholism

get drunk, be drunk; see double; take a drop too much, take a glass too much; drink; tipple, tope, booze, bouse, guzzle, swill, soak, sot, bum [U.S.], besot, have a jag on, lush, bib, swig, carouse; sacrifice at the shrine of Bacchus; take to drinking; drink hard, drink deep, drink like a fish; have one's swill, drain the cup, splice the main brace, take a hair of the dog that bit you., liquor, liquor up; wet one's whistle, take a whet; crack a bottle, pass the bottle; toss off (drink up); go to the alehouse, go to the public house., make one drunk; inebriate, fuddle, befuddle, fuzzle, get into one's head.