Nalizat'tsa - lit "to get licked up". To drink a ton. To get blacked-out drunk.
Neprolivashka - lit "non-spillerino". An alcoholic who has lost the ability to vomit. Apparently, such a phenomenon is common enough in Russian alkie circles to merit its own word.
Akvarium - lit. "aquarium". The drunk tank.
Trezvyak' - lit. "the sober-you-up-er." The drunk tank.
Nezabudka - lit. "non-forgetter". The drunk tank.
V Rigu popas't' - lit. "to make it to Riga", Riga being one of the Westernmost major points of the Russian/Soviet empire. To drink till one pukes.
Vtorsyryo - lit. "secondary raw materials." Empty bottles which can be returned for the bottle deposit, thus fuelling more drinking. Cultural note: the bottle deposit in Soviet times was pretty high, and vodka was pretty cheap. So the cycle of purchasing alcohol and returning the bottles could go on for a while.
A good party, by definition, is a party the third derivative of which is not equal to zero.
ReplyDeleteA derivative of a party, of course, is the vodka one can buy with the money obtained by returning the bottles emptied during the original party.