Utilize is a politically charged
euphemism, meaning: 1. to induce a buzz; 2. to drink
alcoholic beverages to get drunk. The politics is anti-populist, anti-bible-belt, and anti-middle America.
"I say.
You know this does utilize well" (
Hemingway, Ernest, The Sun Also Rises, New York: Scribner, 1986, p. 129).
"Come on and utilize another glass" (
Hemingway, Ernest, The Sun Also Rises, New York: Scribner, 1986, p. 129).