lubricate

verb

Etymology: Borrowed from Latin lūbricātus, perfect passive participle of lūbricō (“make slippery”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more), from lūbricus (“slippery”).

1. To make slippery or smooth (normally to minimize friction) by applying a lubricant.

   “If your bicycle chain is squeaking you should lubricate it.”

2. To cause someone to become drunk, especially to make them more sociable or talkative.

   “They listened with wonder and pride at their album as it played several times throughout the afternoon, with Cosmo lubricating them with beer and whiskey.”

   “At Göbekli Tepe, a site in what is now modern-day Turkey we'll talk about more below, hunter-gatherers convened regularly throughout the tenth to eighth millennia BCE to feast on gazelles, build circular structures, and erect enormous T-shaped limestone pillars carved with mysterious pictograms and animal forms–probably all while well-lubricated with beer.”