Definitions

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  • noun chiefly UK A person who engages in drink-driving.
  • noun chiefly UK, law A person who operates a motor vehicle when legally intoxicated.

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Examples

  • We saw a drink-driver who was, in legal terms, unlucky.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Bystander 2008

  • We saw a drink-driver who was, in legal terms, unlucky.

    Just Another Day In Paradise... Bystander 2008

  • Between them, Britney Spears and Paris Hilton have sold gallons of their fragrance to lorryloads of idiots who seem to think that smelling like a drink-driver or a bald woman who believes she is the devil is somehow desirable, but which smells better – Curious by Britney Spears or Heiress by Paris Hilton?

    Britney Spears & Paris Hilton Go Out Dressed Like Morons 2007

  • Police allege drink-driver 'punched cop in face' A QUEENSLAND police officer was injured after an alleged drink driver hit him in the face.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • Canberra drink-driver hits police car POLICE in the ACT have charged a Canberra man who was caught driving with more than four times the legal alcohol limit while his five-year-old son was a passenger in the car.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • Police allege drink-driver 'punched cop in face' at Deception Bay A DECEPTION BAY police officer was injured after an alleged drink driver hit him in the face.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • The film takes its title from the verdict of the inquest jury, which found that Henri Paul, the drink-driver who crashed the Mercedes in which the Princess died, and a number of paparazzi photographers pursuing the vehicle, had been guilty of "gross negligence".

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • Print Port Talbot drink-driver reversed into McDonald's Mr Andrews was nearly twice over the legal alcohol limit, the court heard A drink-driver has been jailed for reversing his car into a McDonald's - and also banned from all its burger bars in the UK.

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • With his owner hit and killed by an alleged drink-driver, the injured dog had apparently bolted from the roadside - and just kept on going out into the Gulf of Mexico.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2012

  • He hit the headlines in 2006 for sprinting after a suspected drink-driver after spotting him from his chauffeur-driven car.

    BBC News - Home 2011

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