Comparing drinking ages across countries reveals surprising cultural differences.

We usually pre-drink at my place before heading to the club to avoid paying for expensive drinks.

Please bring the drinking-cup from the kitchen before dinner.

After the cold hike, he reached for a strong drink to warm his hands.

I grabbed two fountain drinks and a bag of chips before the movie started.

After the match, the team gathered around the table, raising their glasses and singing old drinking songs.

At the historical reenactment, they toasted with elaborately carved drinking-horns and sang old sea shanties.

She tilted her glass of B-drink—cold tea disguised as whisky—and let him think she was drinking hard liquor so he'd buy her another round.

At the festival, we sampled several B-drinks and picked our favorites for the contest.

Anthropologists found references to black drinks in several 18th-century accounts of southeastern ceremonies.