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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Noun
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And having well and truly fallen off the wagon, the recovering alcoholic arrives at one particular murder scene in the full messy throes of withdrawal.—
Jon O'Brien,
IndieWire,
23 Mar. 2026 -
AlAnon is a support group for family and friends of alcoholics/addicts.—
Ramona Sentinel,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Justin Timberlake, who closed out BottleRock Napa Valley 2025 after a turbulent year, is now fighting to keep video of his 2024 drunk-driving arrest from becoming public.—
Aidin Vaziri,
San Francisco Chronicle,
3 Mar. 2026
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First off, the guy on the sidewalk outside the liquor store was a drunk, not an oracle.—
David Sedaris,
New Yorker,
23 Feb. 2026
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“Tosspot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tosspot. Accessed 28 Mar. 2026.
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