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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.
—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
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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Staples, played in the movie by Emily Blunt, was a recovering alcoholic, and the couple’s fraught journeys with sobriety led to feelings of abandonment and bitterness.—
Rory Doherty,
Time,
5 Sep. 2025
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AlAnon is a support group for family and friends of alcoholics/addicts.—
Ramona Sentinel,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Also very good are Orville Mendoza as the drunkard actor Selsdon, Matthew Patrick Davis as the production’s nervous jack-of-all-trades Tim and Abby Leigh Huffstetler as incompetent stage manager Poppy.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 July 2025
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And then there was the one about him as a bad steward of money raised by the powerful Koch network, a sexist bully, and a drunkard on the job who got canned.—
Philip Elliott,
TIME,
4 Dec. 2024
Noun
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The controversial new trend of adding ice to beer has spread among young drinkers, prompting mixed reactions.—
Staff,
FOXNews.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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But while a music festival is a perfect location to find a bunch of beer drinkers that will stick their arm in a box of mosquitoes, there are some drawbacks to doing research in a place like this.—
Eva Amsen,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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.—
Charles McNulty,
latimes.com,
10 May 2018
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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.—
Jeff McDonald,
sandiegouniontribune.com,
1 Oct. 2017
Noun
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Then Gilmore flamed out, lost everything, and became a dedicated boozer, making flasks out of everything from cucumbers to cuckoo clocks.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
25 July 2025
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For example, flat-roofed pubs should be approached with caution, bags of crisps (not potato chips) must be split open on the table, and warning bells ring out twice at the end of the night. Find out more in our 21st-century guide to the great British boozer.—
Maureen O'Hare,
CNN Money,
14 June 2025
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.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
22 Aug. 2025
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Thrilling game sequences, a terrific ensemble cast led by Geena Davis, Lori Petty and Madonna, plus an all-timer performance from Tom Hanks as their hapless sot of a manager.—
Ben Flanagan | bflanagan@al.com,
al,
8 Apr. 2023
Noun
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Mars in your sign only happens every two years, souse this time wisely.—
Dossé-Via Trenou,
Refinery29,
3 Aug. 2025
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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
Noun
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Ordinary rebels — even ones born from boozehounds — taking down a dictator are inspirational.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2025
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Post Malone, pop’s premier sad sack boozehound, makes his first long-form foray into pure country music.—
Shaad D’Souza,
Pitchfork,
16 Aug. 2024
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“Wino.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wino. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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