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Old 10-30-2009, 04:05 PM   #1
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Alright this is a pretty useless thread(but I'm sure it isn't the first), but I really need to get to the bottom of this. Growing up in Calgary, when you get your drink on before the bar, I and everyone I knew refered to it as "pregaming". Then 3 years ago I move to Edmonton for school, and everyone up here calls it "pre-drinking". How the hell do you "pre-drink" when you're already drinking?? And they think I'm the weird one by callin it pregaming. Dummy Deadmontonians...

Anyway, I'm just wondering if it really is a city thing, or were my H.S. buddies in Calgary the only people in the world that called it pregaming while the rest of the world has been pre-drinking it up before the bars? What do you guys/girls call it?

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Old 10-30-2009, 04:07 PM   #2
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Generally pre-game is the term I prefer. Pre-drinking sounds stupid.
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Old 10-30-2009, 04:25 PM   #3
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pregame for sure
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Old 10-30-2009, 04:26 PM   #4
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My first year of University the dorms were dry. So we talked about going to Muffin Store. Wow, we were dumb. Anyways I didn't really start drinking insane amounts of booze till I was north of Red Deer. But I've heard both pre-game and pre-drinking or "we're going to pre-drink" at So and Sos house.
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I just called it the warm up.
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Old 10-30-2009, 04:27 PM   #6
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I hear pregaming more, but I definitly hear pre-drinking quite a bit, too. Hmmm, I'm going to pay more attention to what people say now.
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Old 10-30-2009, 04:29 PM   #7
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I've heard both and probably said both, probably on the same night too. Come to think of it, I'm not really sure which I usually use and have never though about it before. Now I'm going to be self-conscious about it later tonight, thanks....
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Old 10-30-2009, 04:30 PM   #8
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The only term I ever hear in Edmonton is Pre-drinking. Haven't really ever heard pregaming
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Old 10-30-2009, 04:31 PM   #9
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Pre-gaming? Pre-drinking?

It's a pre-drink. You people are crazy out west!
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Old 10-30-2009, 04:56 PM   #11
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Out in Ontario we called it Pre-Drinking, i.e. you drink at home before spending a lot of money drinking at the bars.
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Old 10-30-2009, 04:57 PM   #12
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Yeah, I've never called it pre-gaming.
When I needed a verb I called it pre-drinking.

I have however had several pre-game drinks.
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I've never heard it called pre-gaming before.
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Old 10-30-2009, 05:09 PM   #14
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The only one that I've heard is referred to in post #9.
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Old 10-30-2009, 05:11 PM   #15
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When I lived in Calgary we always called it pre-drinking. In London, it's called lunch...
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Old 10-30-2009, 05:12 PM   #16
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In Manitoba it was pre-gaming. Never heard of pre-drinking and it sounds stupid.
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Old 10-30-2009, 05:13 PM   #17
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It's called several things:

Pre-gaming
Pre-drinking
Getting primed
Priming
Amping up
Juicing
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Getting primed
This is the term I'm most familiar with.
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Wow I thought pre-gaming was just said in my group of friends. Were all hockey guys so I figured thats where it came from. I think we started it and it caught on like wild fire.

But i've said both. Doesn't really matter imo.
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I grew up in Calgary and I say pre-drinking.
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