Flaring : v. tr. and pron. (word coming from tea towel). Wipe to clean.
Have a drink, a bottle.
To wipe off: to get drunk.
To wipe a bottle: to drink it completely.
Well flared: soul; drunk.
Hit the face.
To wipe someone's ass: to despise him deeply.
Quote from the French writer Michel Houellebecq: “They are drunkent exactly as the miners had to do in the Germinal - the resemblance was further increased by the comeback of theabsinthe which reached titrations ofalcohol mind-boggling, and indeed allowed to wipe off in a minimal time - »in serotonin (2019, Flammarion).