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wino

noun

Definition of wino

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

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Noun

By the time Casey came under the wing of other recovering alcoholics in the 1990s, Murphy was a local legend.

— Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2026
Premiering in 2013, Faris starred in the first seven seasons of Mom as Christy, a recovering alcoholic who struggles to maintain a job, her family and her sobriety as her mom Bonnie (Allison Janney), who’s also in recovery, moves in with her.

— Glenn Garner, Deadline, 15 Oct. 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

This is why coffee drinkers often need to use the bathroom shortly after finishing their morning coffee.

— Jillian Kubala, HEALTH, 10 Nov. 2026
None of us are big drinkers, but the beauty of the surroundings inspired the good times to flow, and, well, so did the wine.

— Claudia Laroye, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Nov. 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

But DeFalco is drawn to the sidewalk dwellers, street preachers and parking-lot boozers who also lurk down there and help (or hinder) Ten, usually at a loud volume.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
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

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
For another Grand Turk specialty, chicken souse served with journey (called johnnycake on other Caribbean islands), Been suggests the deli at the Graceway Grand Turk or the Spot at the JAGS McCartney Airport, which serves the dish on Saturdays.

— Laura Begley Bloom, AFAR Media, 10 Mar. 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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