Related Clues:

• Hit the sauce
• Downed
• Took in
• Guzzled
• Had a shot
• Took a shot
• Toped
• Swallowed
• Wet one's whistle
• Drank moderately but regularly
• Had a few
• Drank
• Bent an elbow, so to speak
• Imbibed
• Chugged, perhaps