Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which imbibes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, imbibes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
imbibes , whodrinks , especially alcoholic beverages.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess)
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Examples
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It was impossible for a lone imbiber to comprehensively cover the dozens of events that took place all over Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Tony Sachs: Cocktail City: The Manhattan Cocktail Classic Is Already An NYC Tradition Tony Sachs 2011
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While it may sound counterintuitive, would it not make sense to lower the drinking age from 21 to 20 or even less, provided the less-than-21-year-old imbiber obtains a separate license for drinking.
Boing Boing 2009
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My guess would be that law enforcement dollars are more than paid for by the imbiber, and not society at large.
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It was impossible for a lone imbiber to comprehensively cover the dozens of events that took place all over Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Tony Sachs: Cocktail City: The Manhattan Cocktail Classic Is Already An NYC Tradition Tony Sachs 2011
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It was impossible for a lone imbiber to comprehensively cover the dozens of events that took place all over Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Tony Sachs: Cocktail City: The Manhattan Cocktail Classic Is Already An NYC Tradition Tony Sachs 2011
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News flash: Halliburton exec becomes presumably world's first fracking-fluid imbiber.
Bill Chameides: What's in This Fracking Water? Bill Chameides 2011
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An afternoon imbiber of cold gin, I can smell her next sneeze, going off in three point two seconds.
Two For One At Dollar Store Dennis Mahagin 2011
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News flash: Halliburton exec becomes presumably world's first fracking-fluid imbiber.
Bill Chameides: What's in This Fracking Water? Bill Chameides 2011
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It was impossible for a lone imbiber to comprehensively cover the dozens of events that took place all over Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Tony Sachs: Cocktail City: The Manhattan Cocktail Classic Is Already An NYC Tradition Tony Sachs 2011
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It's got an intense, almost overwhelming aroma that's both herbal and fruity -- a fellow imbiber said, "It smells like Christmas."
Tony Sachs: Need An Excuse To Drink Some Gin? It's Charles Tanqueray's 200th Birthday! 2010
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