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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.
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Peter Debruge,
Variety,
24 Aug. 2025
To promote their inventory, the staff hosts a free wine tasting, which is paired up with all sorts of cheeses, every Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. On Valentine’s Day, winos will be drinking pink bubbles as the store will be popping open everything from champagne to Cava.
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Miami Staff,
Miami Herald,
30 Jan. 2024
Feed your wino friend's sense of curiosity with the most popular wine club in the land.
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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.
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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.
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Paul Sutter,
Ars Technica,
27 Jan. 2023
If your uncle is a wino, this is the membership service to set him up with.
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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.
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Bob Goldsborough,
chicagotribune.com,
23 Aug. 2021
The business also hosts events, including wine tastings and wino bingo.
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Hannah Kirby,
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
13 Feb. 2020
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
24 Aug. 2025
To promote their inventory, the staff hosts a free wine tasting, which is paired up with all sorts of cheeses, every Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. On Valentine’s Day, winos will be drinking pink bubbles as the store will be popping open everything from champagne to Cava.
—
Miami Staff,
Miami Herald,
30 Jan. 2024
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
Noun
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Sam Sanders grew up in anger; his father, an alcoholic, would come home from work furious, Matt says, beating Sam with his belt.
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The child of alcoholics, Dreesen often referenced his rough-and-tumble upbringing in his comedy sets, telling tales of little Tommy shining shoes in the taverns of the South Side to feed his siblings.
Noun
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Erin Murphy, the attorney representing Hemani, countered that the whole point of the historical laws was to distinguish between drinkers and drunkards.
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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.
Noun
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How consumers -- especially younger drinkers -- answer them will determine whether an industry long defined by fuddy-duddy pretense can find its footing in 2026 and beyond.
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That’s a good thing for drinkers—and a more competitive landscape for brands.
Noun
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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.
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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.
Noun
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At first glance, The Blue Stoops looks like your classic British boozer.
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In Manchester's Northern Quarter, diners slurp oysters to a late-night DJ soundtrack; in Glasgow, Basque cooking is taking center stage; in Leeds, a Victorian boozer is the best place to eat right now.
Noun
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Yet the occasional poignancy of both Toby and Andrew, the sot and the fool, doesn’t emerge in this production.
Noun
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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.
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Mars in your sign only happens every two years, souse this time wisely.
Noun
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For speeders, drunks, reckless drivers and the like.
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The Burgess Park/Blessington Street Basin spin is easy duty really compared to the Finsbury Park/Ranelagh Gardens spin, where I was laid out once like a drunk for a good half hour.
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“Wino.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wino. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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