drinking song

noun

: a song on a convivial theme appropriate for a group engaged in social drinking

Examples of drinking song in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

This joyous drinking song begins with pep before slowing down and giving the musicians room to stretch out. —Alex Suskind, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2025

Country music is known for its drinking songs, but this is just tedious. —Jake Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 July 2024

May 15, 2024 The pub, long known as a hangout for musicians, initially featured Irish troubadours performing drinking songs and traditional Irish ditties. —Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024

With Borg as his guide, O’Brien eats a slaughter plate at a beer hall, sings German drinking songs, and goes to a nude beach — Borg wears only his sneakers and a fanny pack. —Ian Goldstein, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2024

Toby Keith, a former rodeo hand, oil rigger and semipro football player who became a rowdy king of country music, singing patriotic anthems, wry drinking songs and propulsive odes to cowboy culture that collectively sold more than 40 million records, died Feb. 5 at 62. —Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2024

Over the course of the show, the men’s bravado—on display in boisterous bar scenes, complete with drinking songs and a fistfight with British airmen—fades into shellshocked resignation as more of their friends fail to return from missions. —Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Jan. 2024

In the summer, the longest day of the year, Midsomer, is celebrated as its own holiday, parties are held to peel and feast upon crimson crayfish while crooning drinking songs and toasting with elderberry schnapps, cities empty as residents migrate to summer cottages or boats. —Madeline Weinfield, Travel + Leisure, 11 Oct. 2023

Or break into a mediaeval drinking song with a group of buccaneering, but lovable, drunks. —Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1597, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for drinking song

• evensong
• livelong
• overlong
• vietcong
• agung
• along
• belong
• birdsong
• furlong
• headlong
• headstrong
• lifelong