A beer that you drink as soon as you arrive home to prevent you from leaving again, i.e. driving back to work or to pick up a friend at the airport. A safety beer guarantees you a free pass as no one would ask you to drink and drive.
Boss I would love to come back in but I have had a safety beer.
Babe you know if I hadn't already had a safety beer I would pick your mother up at the airport.
The beer that you take to bed with you when you are drunk, to ensure that you have an alcoholic beverage to maintain your current status of happiness and that no one else may take it. This can be consumed while intoxicated, or due to a massive hang over to ease the pain.
CODE RED: WE HAVE NO BEER (EVERYBODY IS DRUNK). But in the back of your mind, you KNOW you have a beer "Safety Beer", and you are OK, You may maintain your buzz as needed.
During session drams (spirits), to take a safety break from the strong drink routine & slow down the alcohol intake with a beer.
The Legendary On Call Team around the Wedderlea Firepit: “aye, time for another round of nips”
The Bad Man: “I think I’m getting ahead of the project timeline here with the drams - I’ll just have a wee safety beer for now”
To be entered into the On Call Team Meeting Minutes…
Cigarette: Northern slang for a cigarette, used oft by mashed up mancunian ravers becasue of the resemblance of a hot(electric)stove to the end of a lit cigarette. Originated circa 1991 in the early halcyon days of the rave culture; we speculate during a drug fuelled hallucination by said manc.
'fuck me noel, i am bolloxed, is that a ciggy in your mouth, or the stove from me 'nans kitchen'/
General use: 'Give us a stove you cunt'