Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that drinks.
- noun One who drinks alcoholic liquors, especially habitually or excessively.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who drinks; particularly, one who drinks spirituous liquors habitually or to excess; a tippler.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who drinks; ; also, one who drinks spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard.
- noun (Zoöl.) a large British moth (
Odonestis potatoria ).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Agent noun ofdrink ; someone or something that drinks. - noun Someone who
drinks alcoholic beverages on a regular basis, especially when to an extent that is likely to impair his or her well-being. - noun A device from which
animals candrink .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess)
- noun a person who drinks liquids
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Examples
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I would like your temperate drinker to pause, and reflect upon the fact, that the quantity of brandy or rum that he took at a drink, when he commenced this downhill course, has been gradually increased; so that in the second year, what had been quite sufficient to please his palate and produce all the desired effects in the first, was then insipidly small; and more so in the third year, if, mayhap, he could with any decency lay claim to the title of _temperate drinker_ so long.
Select Temperance Tracts American Tract Society
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Does he actually think a 270 lb soft drinker is going to stop drinking his Pepsi if it is taxed more?
Wonk Room » Why ‘Poor Bloggers’ Shouldn’t Worry About A Booze Tax 2009
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Far worse than the controlled, steady drinker is the solitary drinker, and it was this that Daylight was developing into.
Chapter XXI 2010
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The decaf drinker is assumed by many roasters to be someone who doesn't care about flavor in the first place and will take what they get without complaint.
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The average damage done by that can of beer to people other than its drinker is closer to a dollar.
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The average damage done by that can of beer to people other than its drinker is closer to a dollar.
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The decaf drinker is assumed by many roasters to be someone who doesn't care about flavor in the first place and will take what they get without complaint.
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The average damage done by that can of beer to people other than its drinker is closer to a dollar.
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But around campus, he became known as a drinker, smoker and partier.
The Religious History Of The Suspected Portland Bomber Josh Fleet 2010
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But around campus, he became known as a drinker, smoker and partier.
The Religious History Of The Suspected Portland Bomber Josh Fleet 2010
chained_bear commented on the word drinker
Wow, thanks WeirdNet. Next time I try to drink something that isn't a liquid, or use a good or service, I'll let you know.
"Drinker was a small, plant-eating dinosaur from the late Jurassic period, about 156 to 145 million years ago. Drinker was a 6.5 feet (2 m) long Ornithopod with a flexible tail." On weekends, Drinker would go on binges and get into fights.
August 29, 2008