Drinker
['drɪŋkə] or ['drɪŋkɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess).
(noun.) a person who drinks liquids.
Checker: Polly--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who drinks; as, the effects of tea on the drinker; also, one who drinks spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard.
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Examples
- After this, Legree became a harder drinker than ever before. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Once, in her absence, he intimated to MacTurk that that woman was a dram-drinker. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- This was always my cordial, to which, like other dram-drinkers, I had eager recourse when unsettled by chagrin. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It is said to have occurred in the aged and persons that were fat and hard drinkers, but most chemists reject the theory and altogether discredit it. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The 'Lord Nelson' had just closed, and the drinkers were going home. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I drank only water; the other workmen, near fifty in number, were great drinkers of beer. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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