Drink as a synonym for absorb. e.g. "I oiled the fretboard and it drank all the oil immediately."
It's an inanimate object, it can't f'ing drink.
Really gets on my wick for some reason.
David Gemmell also had a phrase, which crops up in every book he ever wrote (cloned in some cases, but not as badly as David Eddings who wrote the Belgariad three times) where every time a character takes a break they have a "drink of the cool, clear, water" I hate it, and I can't tell you why.