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The phrase "after drunk" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used in informal contexts, but it lacks clarity and grammatical structure.
Example: "I felt dizzy after drunk, and I needed to sit down."
Alternatives: "after drinking" or "after having drunk".
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But, following the chronological convention of autobiography, she buries the lede; it takes fifty-eight pages to get to the heart of the matter, a description of her first tour of duty in Hell's Kitchen: I climbed stair after stair, knocked on door after door, met drunk after drunk, filthy mother after filthy mother and met dying baby after dying baby.
Long cryptic clues already exist, of course – such as Puck's elaborate imagery... 2d/17d Number of people admitted to empty carriage on Metropolitan Line includes first to exit after drunk remains there (8,8) [ synonym for 'number of people admitted' + first & last letters of ('empty') CARRIAGE + abbrev. for 'Metropolitan' + abbrev.
Compounding the tragedy, the victims' relatives then had to endure years of smears, coverups, and outright lies by police officials, politicians, and media outlets, who blamed the disaster on "tanked-up yobs" (in the words of Sir Bernard Ingham, the press secretary for Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher), and who claimed that the crush occurred after drunk, ticketless fans had forced down a gate.
I've been looking after drunk people for 40 years, and really it's the same blokes I was kicking out of clubs that I'm now helping in taxis.
-On December 6, 23-year-old Cameron Redus was fatally shot after drunk driving home to his apartment in San Antonio, Texas.
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Mr Pentukhov, who works for the municipal social-services department, explains that hypothermic corpses turn up even in August, after drunks tumble into puddles.
Personally, as a soft-lad vegetarian who once suffered a terrible week after drunk-eating fried chicken, I imagine my body's going to have a hard time keeping up after pivoting my diet exclusively to raw human flesh.
@NaomiOhReally I've produced better pints of Guiness AFTER I've drunk them.
Or does it describe the feeling the morning after getting drunk and blacking out?
A Missouri prosecutor filed charges against a convicted felon who, after getting drunk and stoned, shot and killed his friend.
The complainant had alleged Traviss twice raped her at his central London flat after getting drunk together on December 30 last year.
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