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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Renee Lund volunteers with Mothers Against Drunk Driving and joined the effort after her son Tanner was killed by a drunk driver in 2022.
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Sarah Horbacewicz, CBS News, 31 Dec. 2025
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.
—Ashley Boucher, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Dec. 2025
In fact, Blackout Wednesday is one of the deadliest days of the year for drunk driving, and the risk of encountering a drunk driver on Thanksgiving is 55 percent higher than on an average day, according to MoneyGeek.
—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
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Sarah Horbacewicz, CBS News, 31 Dec. 2025
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.
—Ashley Boucher, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Dec. 2025
In fact, Blackout Wednesday is one of the deadliest days of the year for drunk driving, and the risk of encountering a drunk driver on Thanksgiving is 55 percent higher than on an average day, according to MoneyGeek.
—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
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“Drunk driver.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drunk%20driver. Accessed 14 Jan. 2026.
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