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

From Middle English drank, from Old English dranc, from Proto-West Germanic *drank.

drank

1. simple past tense of drink

   He drank a lot last night.

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

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

   He'd drank alcohol prior to driving off the road.

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drank (plural dranke, diminutive drankie)

1. beverage, drink

From Middle Dutch dranc, from Old Dutch *drank, from Proto-Germanic *drankiz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrenǵ- (“to pull; draw; sip”); compare German Trank (“drink; potion”).

• IPA^(key): /drɑŋk/

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• Hyphenation: drank
• Rhymes: -ɑŋk

drank m (plural dranken, diminutive drankje n)

1. (countable, uncountable) beverage, drink
2. (uncountable) alcoholic drinks

• drankje
• hoestdrank

• drinken
• liquid medicine

• Afrikaans: drank
• Negerhollands: drink

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