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wino

noun

Definition of winonext
as in alcoholic

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Recent Examples of wino Hank not only acknowledges the wino sleeping outside his stoop, but takes a minute to give him money. — Peter Debruge, Variety, 24 Aug. 2025 Feed your wino friend's sense of curiosity with the most popular wine club in the land. — Jasmine Gomez, Women's Health, 11 Aug. 2023 Some started at The Sweet Factory, then spent the afternoon dipping a hand into the candy bag like a wino with a bottle. — Rich Cohen, wsj.com, 29 Apr. 2023 These were given suitably stupid names, like selectrons, sneutrinos, squarks, photinos, and my personal (least) favorite, the wino boson. — Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 27 Jan. 2023 If your uncle is a wino, this is the membership service to set him up with. — Mark Stock, Men's Health, 15 Dec. 2022 During a 1968 vote-fraud investigation with the Chicago Daily News, Recktenwald went undercover as a Skid Row wino and registered to vote at a succession of flophouses over several weeks. — Bob Goldsborough, chicagotribune.com, 23 Aug. 2021 The business also hosts events, including wine tastings and wino bingo. — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wino
  1. alcoholic
  2. drunkard
  3. drinker
  4. inebriate
  5. boozer
  6. sot
  7. souse
  8. boozehound
Noun
  • The answers to these questions are very important to our community of addicts and alcoholics, both in and out of recovery.
    — David Manheim, Rolling Stone, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Dad is an abusive alcoholic, prone to berating and even assaulting his daughter in front of guests, of which Vangelio is currently the only one.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of alcoholic
Noun
  • Only his father’s respectability, and perhaps his odd Motown accent, spared him from getting cussed out by bridesmaids at society weddings as a wastrel and drunkard, a shameless woman-wrapper.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2026
  • In invalidating the comparisons, Gorsuch focused on the purpose of the laws aimed at the habitual drunkards of the 18th century.
    — Noah Feldman, Twin Cities, 25 June 2026
Definition of drunkard
Noun
  • Chatting’s gastroenterologist ruled out alcohol consumption, noting in her medical records that Chatting had always been a light drinker, and instead cited an herbal sleeping aid as a likely factor.
    — Christopher Osher, ProPublica, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Austrian by birth, celebrated for his artistry with cocktails and worshipped by the most refined drinkers in Europe and America, the man is a legend in the world of luxury.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of drinker
Noun
  • One of American drama's most intriguing case studies, Hickey is the hardware salesman who returns to his old tawdry haunt not on one of his periodic benders but on a mission to reform the resident inebriates of their belief in a better tomorrow.
    — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 10 May 2018
  • The group proposed extending the winter shelter through May, boosting treatment for serial inebriates and reporting all homeless incidents and issues to a single coordinator.
    — Jeff McDonald, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 Oct. 2017
Definition of inebriate
Noun
  • One recent evening, the horror director Oren Peli stopped by one such boozer, in an alleyway off the Strand, looked around amiably, and ordered a Coke.
    — Anna Russell, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026
  • At first glance, The Blue Stoops looks like your classic British boozer.
    — Claudia Alarcón, Forbes.com, 9 June 2026
Definition of boozer
Noun
  • That at least has some continuity with the old days, because Third Avenue’s saloons at mid-century were where the sots washed up, like Ray Milland in The Lost Weekend.
    — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The Rangers, who held a 16-7 sot advantage in the second, stormed the B’s zone after that and Korpisalo did start to battle well.
    — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 24 Sep. 2025
Definition of sot
Noun
  • Both actors were the sons of souses (Dick Hopkins, on retiring from the baking trade, opened a pub), and the stuff was in their bloodstream.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Mars in your sign only happens every two years, souse this time wisely.
    — Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 3 Aug. 2025
Definition of souse
Noun
  • Ordinary rebels — even ones born from boozehounds — taking down a dictator are inspirational.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Post Malone, pop’s premier sad-sack boozehound, has returned with F-1 Trillion, his first long-form foray into pure country music.
    — Shaad D’Souza, Pitchfork, 16 Aug. 2024
Definition of boozehound

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