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a
: one that drinks
b
: a person who drinks alcoholic beverages especially to a notable degree
a heavy drinker
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Examples of drinker in a Sentence
I'm not much of a drinker.
Most of his friends are drinkers.
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In short, the proportions of vervets who are teetotal, regular, and heavy drinkers are quite similar to those seen in humans.
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Literary Hub, 7 Jan. 2026
Coffee drinkers can get their fix with a maple latte at nearby Fika Coffee, or in Grand Marais at Java Moose.
—Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 7 Jan. 2026
Morning coffee drinkers also had a lower overall mortality risk than the other groups in the study.
—Jenna Anderson, Health, 5 Jan. 2026
Among Tomasino’s recent findings is that at least ten per cent of drinkers can’t detect smoke taint in wine and many more don’t mind it, depending on the grape variety, wine style, and degree of taint.
—Nicola Twilley, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
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Literary Hub, 7 Jan. 2026
Coffee drinkers can get their fix with a maple latte at nearby Fika Coffee, or in Grand Marais at Java Moose.
—Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 7 Jan. 2026
Morning coffee drinkers also had a lower overall mortality risk than the other groups in the study.
—Jenna Anderson, Health, 5 Jan. 2026
Among Tomasino’s recent findings is that at least ten per cent of drinkers can’t detect smoke taint in wine and many more don’t mind it, depending on the grape variety, wine style, and degree of taint.
—Nicola Twilley, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
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“Drinker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drinker. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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