cabrewing

cabrewing

English

Etymology

Blend of canoeing +‎ brewing.

Noun

cabrewing (uncountable)

1. (Ohio, slang) The practice of consuming alcohol while canoeing.
   • 2010, Hunter Stenbeck, "Morgan's Canoe enforces alcohol rules", The Miami Student (Miami University, Oxford, Ohio), Volume 138, Number 8, 17 September 2010, page 1:

     While “cabrewing” — consuming alcohol while canoeing — has become a popular pastime among Miami University students, it doesn't go without consequences that could include a night in jail and a DUI.

   • 2013, AnnE O'Neill, If You Want the Rainbow, Welcome the Rain: A Memoir of Grief and Recovery, Balboa Press (2013), →ISBN, pages 63-64:

     After everyone left around one or two in the morning, we would crash for the night, get up in the morning to do something like “cabrewing” where we would take the remaining beers out in a boat, only to stop drinking for an hour or two before getting cleaned up to go to work.

   • 2013, Jake Warner, The Landlord's Shadow, iUniverse (2013), →ISBN, page 231:

     "Oh, man. I wish you guys could come to Hocking Hills this year. It's such a blast. My friends in Columbus go every summer. It's our annual 'cabrewing' trip."

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:cabrewing.