Soak : v. tr. Enter of water, a liquid.
Drink to excess. He is completely soaked, drunk.
To imbibe the crop: to drink passably.
– Quote from the American writer John Fante (1909-1983): “I knew well that the gin he drank cost him at least thirty cents a pint. So he could control himself and stop drinking just long enough to repay an honorable debt. " In the novel Ask the dust (1939)