on the ran tan
English edit
Etymology edit
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Prepositional phrase edit
- (slang, archaic) Drunk.
- 1920, Dogdom: Monthly, volume 21, page 497:
- The proofreader had been evidently on the ran tan […]
References edit
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary