liquid lunch

English

Noun

liquid lunch (plural liquid lunches)

1. (informal) The consumption of alcohol with no (or little) food at lunchtime.

See also

• liquid diet

Further reading

• Eric Partridge (2005) “liquid lunch”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volume 2 (J–Z), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 1215.