Pub Culture in the UK

The Chewsday Chats: Learn British English

We discuss everything you need to know before heading to the 'boozer'. What can you do to avoid a hangover? How can you make sure you keep friends in the UK? Fancy a pint? Listen and learn 🇬🇧🍻
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Part One - the process of the pub
Boozing (verb, British, informal): to drink alcohol, especially large quantities
Booze (noun, British, informal): alcoholic drink
Tipsy (adj, British, informal): a little drunk

Boozer (noun, British, informal): a pub

Dodgy (adjective, British, informal): suspicious, dishonest, unreliable
Shall we go for a pint? (phrase, British): common way to invite someone to go drinking

Fancy a pint? (phrase, British): common way to invite someone to go drinking
Pub crawl (phrase, British, informal): a tour taking in several pubs or drinking places
Pub golf: (phrase, British, informal): a tour taking in nine pubs dressed in golfing attire
Copious: (adjective): a lot, abundant in supply or quantity
Attire (adjective, formal): clothes

(to) hop (verb, informal): to go quickly from one place to another
Craic (adjective, Irish): fun
Round (noun, British): a set of alcoholic beverages purchased by one person in a group for that complete group

Faux pas (noun): an embarrassing or tactless act or remark in a social situation
Cheapskate (adjective, British, informal):a miserly person
Tight (adjective, British, informal):a miserly person
Stingy (adjective, British, informal):a miserly person
(a) night out (collocation, British): an evening spent outside of the home doing something fun
Part two- Friends down the pub
Posh (adjective, British) : elegant, classy
How's things? (phrase, British): an alternative way to say 'how are you?'
Gasping (adjective, British, informal): to be desperate to obtain or consume; crave
Pop (verb, British, informal): to go somewhere (usually suddenly)
Spitting feathers (idiom): to feel thirsty / be angry
Twist my arm (phrase, British): pressurize someone into doing something that they are reluctant to do
Out and about (phrase, British): going to different places
Bump into (someone): (phrase, British): If you bump into someone you know, you meet them unexpectedly
Pint (568ml UK) (473ml USA): (noun) a measurement of fluid
It's my shout (Phrase, British): i.e. "it's my turn to buy everyone drinks"
Made of money (expression, British): having a lot of money
Half arsed (adjective, British): done with little effort or care; incompetent or inadequate
Part three
Hair of the dog (idiom): An alcoholic drink taken to cure a hangover
"I'm feeling terrible, I think it is time for hair of the dog"

Drown your sorrows (idiom): Forget one's problems by getting drunk
"Let's go down the pub, I need to drown my sorrows"