get a jag on

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get a jag on (third-person singular simple present gets a jag on, present participle getting a jag on, simple past got a jag on, past participle (UK) got a jag on or (US) gotten a jag on)

  1. (slang, intransitive) To get drunk.
    • 1899, Roswell Martin Field and Eugene Field (translators), "The Preference Declared" from Horace, Ode I.38, in Echoes from the Sabine Farm
      Myrtle is good enough for us,— / For you, as bearer of my flagon; / For me, supine beneath this vine, / Doing my best to get a jag on!