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French Synonyms. Les brancards (popular, les brancards de laine = weak or lame legs); des baguettes de tambour (popular = thin legs; properly drumsticks); un bâton de tremplin (mountebanks' = a leg; tremplin is properly a spring-board); des cotrets (popular: 'a fagot'; jus de cotret = stirrup-oil, a 'lathering'); des flûtes or flûtes à café (popular); des flageolets (popular); des gambettes (popular: from O. F. gambe = leg; des gambilles is of similar derivation); des fumerons (popular); des fuseaux (popular: also = a spindle or distaff); des jambes en manche de reste (popular = bandy-legs; des jambes de coq = spindle-shanks; des jambes de coton = weak legs); numéro onze (popular = Shank's mare); des guibes, guiboles, guibolles, or guibonnes (popular and thieves'); des merlins (popular); des fourchettes (popular, literally, forks; fourchettes d'Adam = fingers); les chevaux à double semelles (popular. Cf., English Shank's mare).

Italian Synonyms. Ramo (literally, 'a branch'); calcha; colonna (literally, 'a column').

Spanish Synonym. Gamba (Cf., O. F. Gambe),

1770. Foote, Lame Lover, I. What, d'ye think I would change with Bill Spindle for one of his drumsticks.

1837. Barham, Ingoldsby, 'Lay of St. Nicholas.' He helped his guest to a bit of the breast, And he sent the drumsticks down to be grilled.

2. In sing. (venery).—The penis. For synonyms, see Cream-stick.

Drunk, subs. (vulgar).—A debauch; by implication, a drunkard. On the drunk = 'on the drink, i.e., drinking for days on end.

1871. Philadelphia Inquirer, 6 July. It seems that Gamble went on a drunk last Monday evening.

1879. G. R. Sims, Dagonet Ballads (told to the Missionary). I was out on the drunk and caught it—lor, what a cuss is drink!

[Among other meridians are drunk as a brewer's fart; drunk as Bacchus; drunk as Chloe; drunk as the devil; drunk as hell; drunk as buggery; drunk as a Gosport fiddler; drunk as a fly; drunk as he (or she) can stick (or hang together); drunk as a lord; drunk as an owl (American, a biled owl); drunk as a tapster; drunk as a piper; blind drunk; crying drunk; pissing drunk; dead drunk; so drunk that you can't see a hole through a ladder; drunk as blazes; and so drunk that he opens his shirt collar to piss; tumbling drunk].

Drunk as Davy's sow.—Excessively drunk.—See Davy's Sow.

Drunkard. To come the drunkard, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To feign drunkenness; also to be drunk.

TO be quite the gay drunkard (colloquial), verb. phr.—To be more or less in liquor.

Drunken-Chalks, subs. (military).—Good conduct badges.—See Chalk.

Drunks, subs. (colloquial).—An abbreviation of 'drunk and disorderly.'

1883. Daily Telegraph, 26 March, p. 2, col. 8. Of the twenty-nine night charges, by far the greater number were of drunks.

1884. W. D. Howells, Lady of the Aroostook, ch. xvii. If you could see how my mother looks when I come out of one of my drunks.

1890. Globe, 26 Feb., p. 1, col. 4. 'A Short Way with drunks.' At Buenos Ayres it is customary to punish drunkards, by setting them to sweep the public streets for eight days or so.