To take a drink.

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1830.  O no, he keep um in de closet on de sideboard, and ebbery nite (he crooks his elbow and mimics) you may hear glug, glug, glug.—Mass. Spy, Jan. 13: from the Constitutionalist.

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1836.  William Martin was fined for, as he quaintly expressed it, crooking his little finger too often.—Phila. Public Ledger, Aug. 2.

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1842.  Hugh McDonald and John Smith (not of Arkansas) were fined for elbow-crooking.—Phila. Spirit of the Times, Jan. 14.

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1852.  He crooked his fore-finger, and told the girl to make him another bowl.—Knick. Mag., xl. 356 (Oct.).

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