A person who takes liquid into the mouth in small quantities or using a spoon; chiefly as the second element in compounds (earliest in blood-supper…

One addicted to drinking; one who habitually drinks to excess; an inebriate, a sot.

= drunkard, n.

a habitual drinker, tippler, sot (cf. blow, v.1 31).

One who tipples; a habitual drinker of intoxicating liquor (implying more or less excess, but usually short of positive drunkenness).

colloquial. A habitual drinker, a drunkard. Obsolete. rare.

A person who has a red nose as a result of drinking; a drunkard. Obsolete.

One who dulls or stupefies himself with drinking; one who commonly or habitually drinks to excess; a soaker.

figurative. A drunkard. Obsolete. rare.

A person who is addicted to drinking; a drunkard.

A person addicted to ‘potting’ or drinking; a tippler, a drunkard. rare.

colloquial. A drunkard. Obsolete.

derogatory. A contemptible person; spec. (chiefly Australian) a drunkard.

a heavy drinker, a drunkard.

spec. A habitual drinker of ‘whets’ (whet, n. 2b); a dram-drinker. ? Obsolete.

An intoxicated person; esp. a person addicted to drunkenness, a habitual drunkard.

A drinker; a habitual drunkard; an alcoholic.

A person who is addicted to alcoholic drink; one suffering from alcoholism. Cf. alky, n. 2.

a person affected with oenomania, one who has a passion for wine.

A person affected with dipsomania; one who suffers from an ungovernable craving for drink.

= alcoholist, n.

Originally: an advocate of the freedom to drink alcoholic drinks, a person who is against prohibition (prohibition, n. 4b) (now historical). In…

a habitual or notable drinker.

A habitual drunkard, one addicted to drink.

A drunkard, esp. one whose faculties are affected by drinking. Hence: a fool, a person lacking ability.

(a) a hard drinker; a drunkard, an alcoholic; (b) an agent upholding Prohibition (now historical).

a person who is put on a blacklist.

= dipsomaniac, n. adj.

a hard drinker; a drunkard, an alcoholic.

An alcoholic; a drunkard.

an alcoholic.

a person who engages in alcohol abuse.

An alcoholic. U.S. slang.

a person who engages in substance abuse.

A homeless person or tramp, esp. one who habitually drinks large quantities of cheap, strong alcohol. Cf. jake, n.2 1.