drank

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: drăngk, IPA^(key): /dɹæŋk/

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• Rhymes: -æŋk

Pronunciation spelling of drink

drank (countable and uncountable, plural dranks)

1. (slang) dextromethorphan
2. (slang) a drink, usually alcoholic
   • 2005, Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, and Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), “Stay Fly”, in Most Known Unknown‎, Sony BMG, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG):

     You leave your drink around me, believe your drank going to get drunk up.

• purple drank

• ATI

drank

1. simple past tense of drink

   He drank a lot last night.

2. (obsolete) past participle of drink
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292:

     Though the barber had drank down this story with greedy ears, he was not yet satisfied.

Compare drake.

drank

1. (Britain, dialectal) Wild oats, or darnel grass.

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• rank'd

From Old Dutch *drank, from Proto-Germanic *drankiz.

• Rhymes: -ɑŋk

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drank m (plural dranken, diminutive drankje n)

1. beverage, drink

• drinken
• liquid medicine

From Old Frisian drinka, which derives from Proto-Germanic *drinkaną. Cognates include Mooring North Frisian drainke and West Frisian drinke.

drank

1. (Föhr-Amrum) to drink