"drunk riding"

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> And on the other hand, is there drunk piloting (for those at the wobbly helm of a motorboat)?

That's usually called, unimaginatively, "drunk boating." Various
states have passed drunk boating legislation on the model of
(terrestrial) drunk driving.


--Ben Zimmer

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