Drinking, for example, expressed jokingly in government (9)
I believe the answer is:
ingesting
'drinking for example' is the definition.
(drinking is a kind of ingesting)
'expressed jokingly in government' is the wordplay.
'expressed' indicates a 'sounds like' (homophone) clue.
'jokingly' becomes 'in jest' (I've seen this before).
'government' becomes 'g' (abbreviation for government).
'injest' is a homophone of 'ingest'.
'ingest'+'in'+'g'='INGESTING'
I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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