Tipplers - English meaning

adjective

Containing or relating to alcohol.

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Alcoholic liquor

noun

Suffering from alcoholism.

Usage examples:

His alcoholic daughter was the cause of his anxiety

noun

A person who is unable to give up the habit of drinking too much alcohol

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Alcoholic content

noun

An alcoholic.

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Then he decided he was too young to be an alkie, this wasn't alcoholism, this was making himself fe…

noun

An alcoholic

noun

A person who spends much of their time drinking in bars.

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A beer-swilling barfly

noun

A person who drinks large quantities of alcohol.

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I had always been a boozer, and at my worst i was drinking three bottles of wine a night

noun

A person who drinks a lot

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The local boozer

noun

A person suffering from dipsomania; an alcoholic.

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Fascinating look at the national results - non drinkers do spectacularly worse than dipsos, and the…

noun

Someone suffering from dipsomania

noun

An alcoholic, especially one who experiences intermittent bouts of craving for alcohol.

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Surely no one would employ a dipsomaniac as a barman

noun

Someone suffering from dipsomania

noun

A person who drinks a particular drink.

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Coffee drinkers

noun

A person who drinks (a stated type of liquid)

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A coffee drinker

adjective

Affected by alcohol to the extent of losing control of one's faculties or behaviour.

Usage examples:

He was so drunk he lurched from wall to wall

noun

Past participle of drink.

verb

Take (a liquid) into the mouth and swallow.

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We sat by the fire, drinking our tea

noun

A person who is habitually drunk.

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noun

A person who often drinks large amounts of alcohol

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Her husband turned out to be a drunkard.

noun

A drug addict.

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I don't think we're in danger of society falling apart and all the kids becoming hopheads

noun

Someone who takes illegal drugs

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He lost his way a bit after college and lived in a community of hopheads and petty criminals for a …

verb

Make (someone) drunk; intoxicate.

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It is a rum-based drink designed more to inebriate the masses than to please the palate

noun

A drunkard.

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He was marked down as an inebriate

adjective

Drunk; intoxicated.

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He had been known to get hopelessly inebriate

noun

A heavy drinker.

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Bad news, party animals and juiceheads: drug and alcohol use isn't great for sperm

adjective

(of vegetation, especially grass) growing luxuriantly.

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Lush greenery and cultivated fields

noun

A heavy drinker, especially a habitual one.

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A lush who doesn't make very much sense most of the time

verb

Make (someone) drunk.

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Mr hobart got so lushed up he was spilling drinks down his shirt

verb

Make or allow (something) to become thoroughly wet by immersing it in liquid.

Usage examples:

Soak the beans overnight in water

noun

An act of immersing someone or something in liquid for a period of time.

Usage examples:

I'm looking forward to a long soak in the bath

verb

Submerge in a liquid

noun

A habitual drunkard.

Usage examples:

A few nifty lighting tricks later, and we're riding the rails with a host of yin-yang character pai…

verb

Drink alcohol habitually.

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The few reckless vagabonds with whom he sotted in the alehouse

verb

Soak in or drench with liquid.

Usage examples:

The chips were well soused with vinegar

noun

Liquid used for pickling.

Usage examples:

He liked to make salt-fish souse

noun

A primitive sedentary aquatic invertebrate with a soft porous body that is typically supported by a framework of fibres or calcareous or glassy spicules. sponges draw in a current of water to extract nutrients and oxygen.

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Other images are just as mystifying the spine of a sea urchin, sharks' teeth, sponges and ascidians…

verb

Wipe or clean with a wet sponge or cloth.

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She sponged him down in an attempt to cool his fever

noun

Primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies

preposition

Expressing motion in the direction of (a particular location).

Usage examples:

Walking down to the shops

adverb

So as to be closed or nearly closed.

Usage examples:

He pulled the door to behind him

infinitive particle

Used with the base form of a verb to indicate that the verb is in the infinitive.

Usage examples:

I set out to buy food

noun

A person who drinks excessive amounts of cheap wine or other alcohol, especially one who is homeless.

Usage examples:

Oh yeah, did you hear the one about the wino and the alcoholic who go to the liquor store together?