Excerpts from two posts at
Fritinancy:
Pre-drinking: “Chugging cheap alcoholic drinks before heading out to a bar, club, or sporting event.”.. Also called pre-gaming, pre-partying, pre-loading, or frontloading. Young drinkers’ reasons for pre-drinking include saving money, “getting in the mood,” and “facilitating contacts with potential sexual partners.”
Researchers found that when students drank prior to going to a bar or club, they drank more than they would otherwise. On average, pre-drinking students consumed seven drinks, and students who drank only at a bar or event consumed just over four drinks.
“In fact, due to U.S. legal drinking age requirements, pre-drinking may be most prevalent among underage drinkers in the U.S. … Research shows that underage drinkers may be motivated to pre-drink to achieve a ‘buzz’ or become intoxicated before going to a licensed premise where they cannot legally consume alcohol, such as a bar, club, concert, or sporting event.”
Gundamentalist: A person who goes beyond the language of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and takes his or her unrestricted right to bear arms as a tenet of religious or quasi-religious faith. A portmanteau of “gun” and “fundamentalist.”... the word has been around for more than 80 years. I found a citation in the July 31, 1926, issue of The New Yorker... “Gundamentalist” has occasionally been claimed with pride by those it’s meant to shame...
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