hit the bottle
Turn to alcohol
To hit the bottle is to drink alcohol heavily, especially as a habit or in response to stress: After the divorce, he really hit the bottle.
The phrase suggests problematic drinking rather than casual enjoyment—someone hitting the bottle is using alcohol as a crutch or escape.
Informal term for spirits
- liquorDistilled alcoholic drink
- alcoholIntoxicating hydroxyl compound
- spiritsLiquor or apparitions
- beerFermented grain drink
wine · whiskey · vodka · gin · rum · drunk · tipsy · inebriation
Addiction to drinking
- dependenceState of needing another
- relapseReturn to former illness
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
- withdrawalAct of taking away
rehabilitation · twelve-step · sponsor · sobriety · abstinence · detox · craving · compulsion
booze
Informal term for spirits
beer · wine · whiskey · vodka · gin · rum · drunk · tipsy · inebriation · bender
alcoholism
Addiction to drinking
- dependenceState of needing another
- relapseReturn to former illness
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
withdrawal · rehabilitation · twelve-step · sponsor · sobriety · abstinence · detox · craving · compulsion · binge
crisis
Decisive dangerous moment
- hopelessnessState without hope
- despairTotal absence of hope
- anguishIntense mental suffering
misery · sorrow · grief · turmoil · distress · hardship · struggle · downfall · defeat · loneliness
hit the bottleabstain
Deliberately not do
teetotal · abstinence · temperance · sobriety · dry out
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