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| drunk (New England, obsolete • A couple of students of Williams College went over to North Adams on a bender. This would have been serious matter under the best of circumstances, but each returned with a “brick in his hat.” • "Don't mind him, he's just got a brick in his hat." "Seriously? It's only three o'clock, how is he drunk already?" • Her husband had taken to the tavern, and often came home very late, “with a brick in his hat,” as Sally expressed it.) | |||
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