Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tippler. Also
booser .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who boozes; a toper; a guzzler of alcoholic liquors; a bouser.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun colloquial One who drinks habitually; a
drunkard . - noun UK, slang A
public house . - noun UK, military, obsolete A World War II fighter radar detector, fitted to British bombers.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually
Etymologies
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Examples
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OK, so let's say the breath test was instead of a prison sentence, and the convicted boozer is able to fund the test with the money he would have spent on alcohol.
Drinking alcohol is not a crime, even for prisoners on parole Zoe Williams 2010
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Now that the old boozer is out of the public eye, he may be knocking back a few.
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Security contractor takes exception to being characterized as a boozer with indifference to human life
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It was only after a royal protection cop called the boozer five miles away in Maidenhead that the reality came to light.
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I once knew a Cockney actor whose local "boozer" was the Coach and Horses in Soho, London.
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I once knew a Cockney actor whose local "boozer" was the Coach and Horses in Soho, London.
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British pubgoers are more likely to visit their local to eat rather than drink, as the rise of the gastropub calls time on the traditional "boozer".
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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This is the kind of boozer you would hope always has a place in Scottish life: small, convivial, with a continual buzz of conversation but where you are left alone if you want.
unknown title 2009
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What, did college turn you into some kind of boozer? "
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The control freak side of me doesn't let the raving boozer side out very much.
chained_bear commented on the word boozer
"I'd like to think of me returning when I can/To the greatest little boozer and to Sally MacLennane..." -- "Sally MacLennane," the Pogues, lyrics c. 1985 Shane Macgowan
February 7, 2007
Prolagus commented on the word boozer
What went wrong? Your grades were good
It would take a left wing Robin Hood to pay for school
Your dad's a boozer and you keep him alive.
(Women's realm, by Belle and Sebastian)
October 11, 2008