drunk driver
noun
variants
or drunken driver
chiefly US
: a person who drives a vehicle while drunk
He was killed by a drunk driver.
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After two seasons watching therapist Jimmy (Jason Segel) and his daughter Alice (Lukita Maxwell) struggle through the aftermath of their wife/mother’s death in a car crash, the season 2 finale found both of them forgiving Louis (Brett Goldstein), the drunk driver who caused the fatal accident.
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Ashley Boucher, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Dec. 2025
Over 830 people died in car crashes involving a drunk driver during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend from 2017 to 2021, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
—Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
Aggie is an accomplished writer who has been suffering from writer’s block ever since the death of her young son at the hands of a drunk driver, a local teenager named Teddy Fenig (Bubba Weiler).
—Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 14 Nov. 2025
Years earlier, her son died in an accident where their car collided with a drunk driver.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 13 Nov. 2025
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Ashley Boucher, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Dec. 2025
Over 830 people died in car crashes involving a drunk driver during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend from 2017 to 2021, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
—Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
Aggie is an accomplished writer who has been suffering from writer’s block ever since the death of her young son at the hands of a drunk driver, a local teenager named Teddy Fenig (Bubba Weiler).
—Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 14 Nov. 2025
Years earlier, her son died in an accident where their car collided with a drunk driver.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 13 Nov. 2025
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“Drunk driver.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drunk%20driver. Accessed 24 Dec. 2025.
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