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dipso

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dip·so  (dps)
n. pl. dip·sos Slang
A person who has a compulsion to drink alcohol; a dipsomaniac.


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Rooms - which has been compared to hit show Rent - is about Ian, a rock dipso, and Monica, an ambitious young singersongwriter who dreams of hitting the big time.
One day at a time" and "To thine own self be true" are the dictums that encircle the words "Unity", "Service" and "Recovery" on the Al Anon medals and they are adages that could serve Adams as well in management as they have in his life as a recovering dipso sot.
Again, the director reserves this baleful space not to contrast its cold impersonality with the sunlit jungle hospital of the first half (an arena of nostalgia because it was where his parents met and he grew up), but instead peoples its fluorescent underground with a host of kindly doctors, including a dipso who hides her bottle in a prosthetic leg, and a handsome boy called Off, whose brain has been damaged by carbon monoxide poisoning but who is determined to get his life back on track.
 
 
 
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