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drunk-dial
verb [T] informalDefinition
› to make a phone call when you are drunk: She drunk-dialled her ex-boyfriend last night and told him that she still loved him.Communicating by telephoneDrunkenness and sobriety drunk dial
noun [C] informal › a phone call that you make when you are drunkCommunicating by telephoneDrunkenness and sobriety
(Definition of drunk-dial verb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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