brannigan
See also: Brannigan
English
Alternative forms
- branigan
Noun
brannigan (plural brannigans)
- binge, bender, booze-up (where alcohol is drunk)
- 1977, Harry Allen Smith, The Life and Legend of Gene Fowler:
- In the last decade of his life he went for long stretches without touching booze. Then stresses and strains would build up inside him and he would embark on a brannigan.
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- brawl, fight
- 2005, Louis L'Amour, May There Be a Road: Stories:
- The second round was a brannigan from bell to bell. Both men went out for blood and both got it.
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