Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who suffers from an irresistible and insatiable craving for intoxicants.
- Of or pertaining to dipsomania.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who has an irrepressible desire for alcoholic drinks.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One with a
morbid paroxysmal craving foralcohol ; analcoholic . - noun A persistently
drunken person; adrunkard .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually
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Examples
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A self-indulgent rather unsocial habit-forming man may very easily become what is called a dipsomaniac, no doubt, but that is not the same thing as an inherited specific craving.
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A self-indulgent rather unsocial habit-forming man may very easily become what is called a dipsomaniac, no doubt, but that is not the same thing as an inherited specific craving.
Mankind in the Making Herbert George 1903
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In the first place, I am convinced that not one man in ten thousand or in a hundred thousand is a genuine, chemical dipsomaniac.
Chapter 39 2010
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I survived, through no personal virtue, but because I did not have the chemistry of a dipsomaniac and because I possessed an organism unusually resistant to the ravages of John Barleycorn.
Chapter 38 2010
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You have shown yourself no alcoholic, no dipsomaniac, but merely an habitual drinker, one who has made John Barleycorn's acquaintance through long years of rubbing shoulders with him.
Chapter 1 2010
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She has played incestuous mothers and hardcore depressives and dipsomaniac good-time girls.
Julianne Moore: 'I'm going to cry. Sorry' Kira Cochrane 2010
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I have no word to say for or about the microscopically unimportant excessivist, the dipsomaniac.
Chapter 2 2010
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And no, it's not that ankle-monitored dipsomaniac Lindsay Lohan.
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In particular, she resented his insinuation that she was a dipsomaniac.
Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010
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john commented on the word dipsomaniac
I'm a retired one of these.
September 12, 2007
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September 14, 2007