Lush

Red background with an illustration of a man holding a drink. His eyes are doubled, he has red spots on his nose, and his tongue is lolling out the side of his mouth. The white text is above the illustration and to the right.

"Lush" is a slang term that refers to a person who is often, or messily, drunk. The origin of the term is unclear. It first came into popular use in England in the 1820s, coinciding with the peak years of the buzzy London nightclub City of Lushington. The club's name may have been a tribute to Loschen, a potent German beer, or lush, a word in the Irish traveler lexicon meaning "to drink".