A “spree.”
1848. Zenas had been on ‘a bat’ during the night previous, and had squandered full half-a-dollar on himself, in white-eye and sweetening.—Durivage and Burnham, ‘Stray Subjects, Applying the Principle,’ p. 102.
1856. Ellis had lived about fourteen years around Europe, and had just returned from a prolonged batter in Paris, in consequence of which he looked rather sleepy round the eyes.—Knick. Mag., xlviii. 502 (Nov.).
1869. I went to a ‘bat’ in Sweatrame’s room yesterday, and we smoked and drank till three.—W. T. Washburn, ‘Fair Harvard,’ p. 69 (N.Y.).
