The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word REHOBOAM
I've seen this crossword clue in The Times
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More clues leading to the result REHOBOAM
- Bottle of wine rogue emptied with tramp before lunchtime?
- A lot to drink as engineers tramp over a mile
- Bad hombre guzzling over a bottle
- Itinerant worker featured in a number of papers revealing a lot of bottle
- Bottle tramp wrapped in lots of paper
- Regarding hobo in the morning with huge bottle of booze
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The straight part
We know that "A lot to drink" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case a lot to drink = rehoboam.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does REHOBOAM mean?
REHOBOAM noun- A bottle of Champagne or Burgundy wine containing 4.5 liters of fluid, six times the volume of a standard bottle.