Drinker
/ˈdɹɪŋkɚ/ name, noun, slang
name, noun, slang ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Agent noun of drink; someone or something that drinks. agent, form-of
- 2 a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess) wordnet
- 3 Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages on a regular basis.
"a heavy drinker"
- 4 a person who drinks liquids wordnet
- 5 A device from which animals can drink.
"a bell drinker"
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- 6 A pub. slang
"Antisocial behaviour? What the hell was that? In my day antisocial meant staying in to watch the footy on Scotsport instead of going down the drinker."
- 7 A lasiocampid moth of species Euthrix potatoria, having an orange-brown colour.
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname
Example
More examples"You could get into the Guinness Book of World Records as the heaviest drinker."
Etymology
From Middle English drinkere, drynkere, from Old English drincere (“drinker”), from Proto-Germanic *drinkārijaz (“drinker”), equivalent to drink + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Drinker (“drinker”), West Frisian drinker (“drinker”), Dutch drinker (“drinker”), German Low German Drinker (“drinker”), German Trinker (“drinker”), Danish drikker (“drinker”), Swedish drickare, drinkare (“drinker”).