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drinker

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drink·er  (drngkr)
n.
1. One that drinks.
2. One who drinks alcoholic liquors, especially habitually or excessively: a hard drinker.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.drinkerdrinker - 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.drinkerdrinker - a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess)
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, alko or alco Austral. (slang)
Translations
Spanish drinker [ˈdrɪŋkəʳ] nbebedor(a) m/f
French drinker [ˈdrɪŋkəʳ] drink nbuveur/euse
German drinker [ˈdrɪŋkəʳ] drink nTrinker(in) m(f)
Italian drinker [ˈdrɪŋkəʳ] nbevitore/trice

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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.
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.
The weasel was a drinker of blood, and it was ever her preference to drink from the throat of life itself.
 
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