Noun

(head)

(cricket, plurale tantum) A short break in play to allow the players to have a drink, and for quick repairs to be made to equipment or the pitch.

Noun

(en-plural noun)

(colloquial, informal) Alcoholic drinks consumed before a party, pub crawl or other social event.

* 1998 , George Eells, Robert Mitchum: A Biography

Neither Bob nor Dorothy showed up for predrinks at the producer?s home.

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, title=[F] Dutch Pre-Con Minimeet , group=alt.fan.pratchett.announce , author=Patrick 'Turtle' Dersjant , date=September 16 , year=1998 , passage=I was thinking to have had an initial predrinks meeting-up phase in the North-End pub (everybody knows where that is,right?) starting at 18:00, and then have had dinner around seven fifteen at the Illegale, and after that have gone back to the North-End. citation

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, title=Melbourne's goth scene from a Canberran perspective... , group=aus.culture.gothic , author=Ammorata , date=February 11 , year=2000 , passage=Predrinks will still remain the best option for myself ... I didn't stock up a fully equipped bar with a selection of each of my favourite spirits and liquers and beers for nothing :) citation

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, title=Have I missed Christmas? , group=uk.gay-lesbian-bi , author=Paul G , date=December 20 , year=2002 , passage=Predrinks at Slug and Lettice(sic), very near Canary Wharf Jubilee Line station from 7pm, leaving 7.30pm(ish) to make our way over to Crossharbour. citation

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, title=Harry Potter and the Monumental Cock-up , group=uk.rec.sheds , author=Cerumen , date=August 4 , year=2007 , passage=It's the only country I have been in where everybody, and I do mean everybody, arrives at the pub in a state of total intoxication and proceeds to drinking like fish. The predrinks are done as the off sales prices are reasonable whereas bar prices caused me to nearly faint but arriving drunk numbs that effect. citation