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- noun chiefly UK Operation of a
motor vehicle after recently consuming analcoholic beverage . - noun chiefly UK, law A
criminal offence committed by a person who operates a vehicle when the measured amount ofalcohol in his or herblood exceeds thelegal limit .
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Examples
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Danny Care has been fined a total of £3,100 and banned from driving for 16 months after pleading guilty to drink-driving in the early hours of New Year's Day.
Care fined and banned after pleading guilty to drink-driving 2012
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However, your stepson may not be dependent and without wanting to seem to belittle your worries I take drink-driving very seriously is your assessment accurate?
Problem solved 2011
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He was arrested for suspected drink-driving but a breath test showed he was under the legal limit, the court wastold.
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Lancaster had already made his resolve clear when, within days of his appointment, he suspended Danny Care, the England player to whom he is closest, after he was arrested for drink-driving.
Six Nations: Stuart Lancaster committed to England's long-term vision 2012
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Judge Wolfgang Backen read out his list of previous crimes: theft, several cases of actual and grievous bodily harm, stabbing a man and drink-driving.
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The drink-driving incident was a turning point, says Pennant, who was released from prison after serving 31 days.
Jermaine Pennant is back at Wembley after an eventful 12-year absence 2011
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So set your body clock for Fast Freddie, the Widow and Me, the redemptive tale of a swaggering cock of a drink-driving luxury car dealer forced to do community service at a drop-in centre for teenagers with behavioural and social problems.
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"Theft of motor vehicles, robbery, drink-driving – daft little things, but it sticks with you," he says.
Britain's not working Amelia Gentleman 2010
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In March 2005, while on loan from Arsenal at Birmingham City, Pennant was sentenced to three months in prison after he was found guilty of drink-driving, driving while disqualified and having no insurance.
Jermaine Pennant is back at Wembley after an eventful 12-year absence 2011
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Pennant, tagged "the most expensive teenager in English football" after his move from Notts County to Arsenal a dozen years ago, could be found half a dozen years later wearing a tag of a very different kind in Birmingham City's matches while on probation from a jail term following a drink-driving conviction.
The lost boys rescued from wilderness years | Richard Williams 2011
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