lubricate

lubricateverb/ˈluːbrɪkeɪt/

• 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.