hard-drinking
adjective
—used to describe a person who often drinks a lot of alcohol
He had a troubled relationship with his violent, hard-drinking father.
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But the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, whatever its authenticity, has ever since stood as a monument to hard-drinking existentialists, including, presumably, Post Malone.
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Tom Zoellner, SPIN, 9 Apr. 2024
With the arrival of the jet age in the 1960s, the island became a quagmire of sun-and-sand mass tourism, with chunks of its coast quickly barnacled with cheap all-inclusive refuges catering to hard-drinking Brits and Germans.
—Tony Perrottet, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Mar. 2024
Karaoke became a Japanese obsession in the 1970s, associated with hard-drinking salarymen kicking back after work with sake and song.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2024
In that hard-drinking era, sommeliers were considered snobbish, condescending types who cajoled diners into overspending.
—Eric Asimov, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
As a hard-drinking, oft-puking, ass-kicking Santa Claus, David Harbour is tasked with rescuing an insufferable family from a terrorist (John Leguizamo) who wants all of their money.
—EW.com, 31 Jan. 2024
His hard-drinking lifestyle cut his original run with the Pogues short after five albums together, though, and MacGowan was fired for his erratic and unreliable performances in 1991.
—Al Shipley, SPIN, 30 Nov. 2023
But the latter is: Meyer Landsman, a divorced, hard-drinking detective in the Sitka police department.
—Jack Butler, National Review, 4 Nov. 2023
As a troubled, hard-drinking rage case who has run out of other opportunities, Michael Fassbender feels uncomfortably miscast in the role of coach Thomas Rongen and is unable to settle on a credible tone for the character, giving the film an awkwardly unreliable center.
—Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
Tom Zoellner, SPIN, 9 Apr. 2024
With the arrival of the jet age in the 1960s, the island became a quagmire of sun-and-sand mass tourism, with chunks of its coast quickly barnacled with cheap all-inclusive refuges catering to hard-drinking Brits and Germans.
—Tony Perrottet, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Mar. 2024
Karaoke became a Japanese obsession in the 1970s, associated with hard-drinking salarymen kicking back after work with sake and song.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2024
In that hard-drinking era, sommeliers were considered snobbish, condescending types who cajoled diners into overspending.
—Eric Asimov, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
As a hard-drinking, oft-puking, ass-kicking Santa Claus, David Harbour is tasked with rescuing an insufferable family from a terrorist (John Leguizamo) who wants all of their money.
—EW.com, 31 Jan. 2024
His hard-drinking lifestyle cut his original run with the Pogues short after five albums together, though, and MacGowan was fired for his erratic and unreliable performances in 1991.
—Al Shipley, SPIN, 30 Nov. 2023
But the latter is: Meyer Landsman, a divorced, hard-drinking detective in the Sitka police department.
—Jack Butler, National Review, 4 Nov. 2023
As a troubled, hard-drinking rage case who has run out of other opportunities, Michael Fassbender feels uncomfortably miscast in the role of coach Thomas Rongen and is unable to settle on a credible tone for the character, giving the film an awkwardly unreliable center.
—Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
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