Drinker

//ˈdɹɪŋkɚ// name, noun, slang

name, noun, slang ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Agent noun of drink; someone or something that drinks. agent, form-of
  2. 2
    a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess) wordnet
  3. 3
    Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages on a regular basis.

    "a heavy drinker"

  4. 4
    a person who drinks liquids wordnet
  5. 5
    A device from which animals can drink.

    "a bell drinker"

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  1. 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."

  2. 7
    A lasiocampid moth of species Euthrix potatoria, having an orange-brown colour.
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname

Synonyms

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alcoholicalcoholicbacchanalbarbarflybistro

Example

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"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”).

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