drank

See also: Drank and Dränk

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: drăngk, IPA^(key): /dɹæŋk/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -æŋk

Etymology 1

Pronunciation spelling of drink

Noun

drank (countable and uncountable, plural dranks)

1. (slang) dextromethorphan
2. (slang) a drink, usually alcoholic
   • 2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, and Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), Most Known Unknown‎^[1], performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG:

     You leave your drink around me, believe your drank going to get drunk up.

Derived terms

• purple drank

References

• ATI

Verb

drank

1. simple past of drink

   He drank a lot last night.

2. (obsolete or informal) past participle of drink
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

     Though the barber had drank down this story with greedy ears, he was not yet satisfied.

   He'd drank alcohol prior to driving off the road.

Etymology 2

Compare drake.

Noun

drank

1. (UK, dialect) Wild oats, or darnel grass.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “drank”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• rank'd

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Dutch

Etymology

From Template:ink, from Old Dutch *drank, from Proto-Germanic *drankiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /drɑŋk/

• audio:

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• Hyphenation: drank
• Rhymes: -ɑŋk

Noun

drank m (plural dranken, diminutive drankje n)

1. (countable, uncountable) beverage, drink
2. (uncountable) alcoholic drinks

Derived terms

• drankje
• hoestdrank

Related terms

• drinken
• liquid medicine

Descendants

• Afrikaans: drank

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North Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian drinka, which derives from Proto-Germanic *drinkaną. Cognates include Mooring North Frisian drainke and West Frisian drinke.

Verb

drank

1. (Föhr-Amrum) to drink

Conjugation

Conjugation of drank

infinitive I	drank
infinitive II	tu dranken
past participle	dronken
imperative singular	drank
imperative plural	drank'em
	present	past
1st-person singular	ik drank	ik droonk
2nd-person singular	dü drankst	dü droonkst
3rd-person singular	hi/hat/at drankt	hi/hat/at droonk
1st-person dual	wat drank	wat droonk
2nd-person dual	jat drank	jat droonk
1st-person plural	wi drank	wi droonk
2nd-person plural	jam drank	jam droonk
3rd-person plural	jo drank	jo droonk
	perfect	pluperfect
1st-person singular	ik haa dronken	ik hed dronken
2nd-person singular	dü heest dronken	dü hedst dronken
3rd-person singular	hi/hat/at hee dronken	hi/hat/at hed dronken
1st-person dual	wat haa dronken	wat hed dronken
2nd-person dual	jat haa dronken	jat hed dronken
1st-person plural	wi haa dronken	wi hed dronken
2nd-person plural	jam haa dronken	jam hed dronken
3rd-person plural	jo haa dronken	jo hed dronken
	future (skel)	future (wel)
1st-person singular	ik skal drank	ik wal drank
2nd-person singular	dü skääl drank	dü wääl drank
3rd-person singular	hi/hat/at skal drank	hi/hat/at wal drank
1st-person dual	wat skel drank	wat wel drank
2nd-person dual	jat skel drank	jat wel drank
1st-person plural	wi skel drank	wi wel drank
2nd-person plural	jam skel drank	jam wel drank
3rd-person plural	jo skel drank	jo wel drank