One or more serving too much of alcohol, which leads to drunkenness.
Etymology:
- From one drink too many.
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He's had one too many.
Submitted on July 07, 2010
Additional definitions for 'one too many':
| one too many | Used other than as an idiom: see one, too, many. |
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einer zu viel
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