as in drunk
a person who makes a habit of getting drunk
one can be a social drinker without turning into an alcoholic
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Recent Examples of alcoholic
Chris Willman, Variety, 27 May 2026
My 45-year-old son who was close to my father is an alcoholic.
—R. Eric Thomas, Washington Post, 25 May 2026
ABC News, 11 June 2026
The mother of two testified that a cooler containing alcoholic beverages was on board.
—Nikiya Carrero, CBS News, 11 June 2026
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Noun
Tommy is sober; Jeff’s a wisecracking alcoholic who seems to have twice emptied out a flask before the first scene is over.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 27 May 2026
My 45-year-old son who was close to my father is an alcoholic.
—R. Eric Thomas, Washington Post, 25 May 2026
Adjective
The administration of President Luis Abinader also proposed to impose customs taxes on certain imports and monitor items including cigarettes and alcoholic beverages.
—ABC News, 11 June 2026
The mother of two testified that a cooler containing alcoholic beverages was on board.
—Nikiya Carrero, CBS News, 11 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for alcoholic
Noun
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But Grossman described characterizations of his wife driving drunk, racing and hitting the boys after going as fast as 82 mph in a 45-mph zone as inaccurate.—
Richard Winton,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2026
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This is different from the pastime counterfactuals enjoyed after the fact by barfly drunks and social media idiots.—
Kyle Wagner,
New York Daily News,
3 June 2026
Adjective
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From that bibulous beginning, Mr. Epstein became a driving force behind the Library of America, which published its first books in 1979.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
5 Feb. 2022
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But how differently would the Iron Lady have handled Brexit or Jean-Claude Juncker, the EU’s bibulous president?—
Philip Delves Broughton,
WSJ,
16 Nov. 2018
Noun
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Most beer drinkers are familiar with a tallboy, but Coors Light is expanding on that concept in anticipation of the 2026 FIFA World Cup.—
Gabe Hauari,
USA Today,
9 June 2026
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The survey found that people who reported drinking alcohol also reported eating a lot more savory foods and fewer sweet foods than the non-drinkers.—
Teresa Mull,
FOXNews.com,
6 June 2026
Adjective
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His dissolute, debauched lifestyle was due for a reckoning and could have sunk into tropes of the season’s theme.—
Jennifer Maas,
Variety,
10 June 2026
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The economist’s description of the Fed chair was admiring, almost tender— comparing him to a kindly gardener who knew just how much sunlight to bestow upon the plants, or to a father figure who could keep his profligate and dissolute children on the right path.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 May 2026
Noun
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The 48-year-old musician repeated his anti-Jewish rhetoric in a 2025 post insisting his words aren’t the ramblings of a drunkard.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
6 May 2026
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Harris maintained that, like habitual drunkards, unlawful drug users may have their gun rights temporarily taken away.—
Jack Birle,
The Washington Examiner,
2 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Firstman stars as Peter, a debauched millennial aging out of a New York scene that never cared about him as a person in the first place.—
Joshua Rothkopf,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2026
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But unlike, say, Sheridan, who is interested in offering the down-home, traditional values of the Southwest as a positive alternative to coastal-élite liberalism, there’s no real upside to the debauched, unbridled world that Levinson presents.—
Naomi Fry,
New Yorker,
18 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Doctors deal each day with tales of the worried, sullen, skeptical, dissipated, desperate.—
Michael Stein,
BostonGlobe.com,
4 Nov. 2022
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White’s dissipated dark side was no secret to his friends.—
Nancy Bilyeau,
Town & Country,
1 Feb. 2022
Adjective
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The concept was already mildly stale in 1983; in 2026, jokes about Nate learning to use a toaster or a GPS come off as well past their expiration date, no matter how earnestly dopey a performance Bargatze gives.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
5 June 2026
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Originally, the dopey jock role had been filled by actor Steven Ford.—
Raechal Shewfelt,
Entertainment Weekly,
4 June 2026
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“Alcoholic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alcoholic. Accessed 13 Jun. 2026.
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