alcoholidayn.
/ˌalkəˈhɒlᵻdeɪ/, U.S. /ˌælkəˈhɑləˌdeɪ/ humorous.
A holiday or period of leisure spent drinking alcoholic liquor.
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society > leisure > [noun] > a period of > holidays > specific type
summer vacation1507
public holiday1736
summer holiday1746
school holiday1777
Cook's tour1856
alcoholiday1877
busman's holiday1893
caravan holiday1899
caravanning holiday1924
staycation1944
spring break1956
farm stay1957
charter1959
ski pack1969
staycation2008
1877 Huddersfield Daily Chron. 11 Jan. 4/3 Our fete days are our alcoholidays.
1906 W. De Morgan Joseph Vance xxxvi. 324 Your disgustin' old Daddy had been..giving himself..a. sort of alcoholiday.
1924 A. M. W. Stirling Life's Little Day ix. 170 Some woman lay prone upon the pavement, obviously suffering from the effects of a recent ‘alcoholiday’.
1958 E. Birney Turvey vii. 79 He had never been in such a cosy beer parlour in all his alcoholidays.
1983 A. Melville-Ross Shadow xv. 157 He had kept Bulstrode company on what he called his ‘alcoholiday’.
2011 Sun (Nexis) 24 Nov. 32 Our road trip..ended up being somewhere between a countrywide research mission and an all-consuming alcoholiday.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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