dipsomaniac

as in alcoholic
a person who makes a habit of getting drunk few suspected that this pillar of the community, ensconced in her suburban colonial, was a closet dipsomaniac

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Noun
  • Tracker's season 2 finale centers primarily on the disappearance of Bill Weaver (Brian Keane), a local restaurateur and recovering alcoholic.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 12 May 2025
  • Delia is a recovering alcoholic, after all, and with the scent Erivo could carry that past with her as well as a certain amount of freshness that comes with working on an apple farm.
    Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 9 May 2025
Noun
  • In the play’s finest scene, a sympathetic drunk (Trevor Fox) tries to reel Moat back from his horrors.
    Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2025
  • That’s different from dealing with homosexual drunks.
    Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2025
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“Dipsomaniac.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dipsomaniac. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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