get one's load on

English

Verb

get one's load on (third-person singular simple present gets one's load on, present participle getting one's load on, simple past got one's load on, past participle (UK) got one's load on or (US) gotten one's load on)

1. (slang) To get drunk.
   • 2007, John Maberry, Waiting for Westmoreland, page 89:

     Everyone learned to stay away from him the morning after, as well as in the evening after he got his load on. But stone cold sober, he was still a mean son-of-a-bitch.