as in alcoholic
a person who makes a habit of getting drunk
a bar filled with the same old tosspots night after night
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Recent Examples of tosspot
Marian Ryan’s longtime tosspot trooper pal spent the afternoon at a bar, got in his car and killed somebody and was off the job at her office for eight months.
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Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 26 Apr. 2026
Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 26 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tosspot
Noun
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After finding out about the affair, her mother, a recovering alcoholic, relapsed and had to be hospitalized.—
Harriette Cole,
Mercury News,
1 June 2026
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After the war, his goalscoring statistics were deleted and his achievements were discredited, with the Polish press labelling him as mentally unstable and an alcoholic.—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
1 June 2026
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Our purpose was not to get the campus drunk.—
Peter Hessler,
New Yorker,
31 May 2026
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But while following up the usual drunk-and-disorderlies and petty thefts that come with his new territory, Stilwell gets a report of a body found weighed down at the bottom of the harbor.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
27 May 2026
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“Tosspot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tosspot. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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