lush it up

lush it up (third-person singular simple present lushes it up, present participle lushing it up, simple past and past participle lushed it up)

1. (intransitive, idiomatic, slang) To drink alcohol to excess; to get drunk.

   Synonyms: lush, lush around, lush up

   • 1962, James Baldwin, Another Country, New York, N. Y.: The Dial Press, published 1963 January, page 18:

     “Say, man, how you coming with Eva?” the host asked.
     “Fine, fine, we lushing it up.”

• Jonathon Green (2024) “lush (it) up v.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang‎