drink·er

(drĭng′kər)

1. One that drinks.

2. One who drinks alcoholic liquors, especially habitually or excessively: a hard drinker.

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drinker

(ˈdrɪŋkə)

1. a person who drinks, esp a person who drinks alcohol habitually

2. (Animals) short for drinker moth

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

drink•er

(ˈdrɪŋ kər)

n.

1. one that drinks.

2. a person who drinks alcohol habitually or to excess.

[before 950]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	drinker - a person who drinks liquids consumer - a person who uses goods or services gulper, guzzler - a drinker who swallows large amounts greedily quaffer - a person who drinks heartily sipper - a drinker who sips sucker - a drinker who sucks (as at a nipple or through a straw)
	2.	drinker - a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess) imbiber, juicer, toper consumer - a person who uses goods or services bar fly - a drinker who frequents bars ale drinker, beer drinker - someone whose favorite drink is beer or ale drunk - someone who is intoxicated drunk, drunkard, inebriate, rummy, sot, wino - a chronic drinker guzzler - someone who drinks heavily (especially alcoholic beverages); "he's a beer guzzler every night" moderationist - a moderate drinker (as opposed to a total abstainer) bacchanal, bacchant, drunken reveler, drunken reveller - someone who engages in drinking bouts social drinker, tippler - someone who drinks liquor repeatedly in small quantities carouser, wassailer - someone who enjoys riotous drinking abstinent, nondrinker, abstainer - a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages

drinker

noun alcoholic, drunk, boozer (informal), soak (slang), lush (slang), toper, sponge (informal), guzzler, drunkard, sot, tippler, wino (informal), inebriate, dipsomaniac, bibber I'm not a heavy drinker.

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Translations

drinker

[ˈdrɪŋkəʳ] N → bebedor(a) m/f
he was a heavy drinker → era un bebedor empedernido

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

drinker

[ˈdrɪŋkə^r] n

[alcohol] → buveur/euse m/f
a heavy drinker → une personne qui boit beaucoup

(= regular consumer) tea drinker → buveur/euse m/f de thé
beer drinker → buveur/euse m/f de bière

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

drinker

n → Trinker(in) m(f); he’s a heavy drinker → er ist ein starker Trinker

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

drinker

[ˈdrɪŋkəʳ] n → bevitore/trice
a heavy drinker → un forte bevitore

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

drinker

a. bebedor, tomador.

English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

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Yet here I am, at the last, possessed with the drinker's desire.

"You have shown yourself no alcoholic, no dipsomaniac, but merely an habitual drinker, one who has made John Barleycorn's acquaintance through long years of rubbing shoulders with him.

The great majority of habitual drinkers are born not only without desire for alcohol, but with actual repugnance toward it.

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It appears that the man who was lying in wait for them had also recognized them, for he slowly followed all the zigzags that the scholar caused the captain to make, who being a more hardened drinker had retained all his self-possession.

A remnant of fraternal pity, which never abandons the heart of a drinker, prompted Phoebus to roll Jehan with his foot upon one of those pillows of the poor, which Providence keeps in readiness at the corner of all the street posts of Paris, and which the rich blight with the name of "a rubbish- heap." The captain adjusted Jehan's head upon an inclined plane of cabbage-stumps, and on the very instant, the scholar fell to snoring in a magnificent bass.

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Instead, he was that direst of all drinkers, the steady drinker, deliberate and controlled, who averaged a far higher quantity of alcohol than the irregular and violent drinker.

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Pierre knew that Makar Alexeevich was Joseph Bazdeev's half-insane brother and a hard drinker.

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Three lads could not supply the drinkers. They filled the shop, the chambers, and the court, even.

From the spot on which they had placed themselves the two new guests of the Image-de-Notre-Dame heard the ever-increasing hubbub of the tide of people, and lost neither a cry nor a gesture of the drinkers, at tables in the cabaret, or disseminated in the chambers.

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This little coterie of friends was composed of seven famous men, who possessed many talents in common, being poets and musicians, alchemists, philosophers, and mostly hard drinkers as well.

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{zeta omega rho omicron tau epsilon rho omicron nu / delta epsilon / kappa epsilon rho alpha iota epsilon}, 'mix the drink livelier,' does not mean `mix it stronger' as for hard drinkers, but 'mix it quicker.'

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In a few moments every spring had its jovial knot of hard drinkers, with tin cup in hand, indulging in a mock carouse; quaffing, pledging, toasting, bandying jokes, singing drinking songs, and uttering peals of laughter, until it seemed as if their imaginations had given potency to the beverage, and cheated them into a fit of intoxication.

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