on the ran tan

English

Etymology

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Prepositional phrase

on the ran tan

1. (slang, archaic) Drunk.
   • 1920, Dogdom: Monthly, volume 21, page 497:

     The proofreader had been evidently on the ran tan […]

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary