<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>Plural drachmas, drachmae</li><li>A cupronickel coin and monetary unit of modern Greece until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 lepta. Abbreviated as dr. or drch.</li><li>The principal silver coin of ancient Greece.</li><li>A small unit of weight in ancient Greece, approximately equivalent to the U.S. and British apothecaries' dram.</li><li>Any of various modern weights, especially a dram.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb:</strong></p><ul><li>(Used without object) Archaic: to drink drams; tipple.</li><li>(Used with object) Archaic: to ply with drink.</li></ul>