on the ran tan

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Etymology[edit]

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Prepositional phrase[edit]

on the ran tan

  1. (slang, archaic) Drunk.
    • 1920, Dogdom: Monthly, volume 21, page 497:
      The proofreader had been evidently on the ran tan […]

References[edit]

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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