common sewer
English
editEtymology
editA punning allusion to shared drains for sewage. Compare drain (“a drink”).
Noun
editcommon sewer (plural common sewers)
- (UK, slang, archaic) A communal session of drinking alcohol.
- 1869, Meliora, volume 12, page 47:
- When men go into a 'sluicery' for a 'sensation,' a 'drain,' or a 'common sewer,' they call the glass of gin they seek, in allusion to the juniper, a 'nipper,' or, more briefly, a 'nip,' occasionally a 'bite,' and not unfrequently it turns out a 'flogger.'
References
edit- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary