alcoholidays

Noun

alcoholiday (plural alcoholidays)

1. (humorous, informal) A holiday or leisure time spent drinking alcohol.
   • [N]ow you see we are out on a frolic, a spree,—on an alcoholiday. See it?1883, Mrs. Charles H[enry] Fernald [i.e., Maria Elizabeth Fernald?], “A Temperance Frolic”, in Footlight Frolics: Entertainments for Home and School […], Boston, Mass.: Lee and Shephard; New York...
2. (humorous, informal, rare) A period of time during which one intentionally abstains from drinking alcohol.
   • For skin disorders, we sometimes fix the diet by ordering the patient off the Seven Deadly C's—cocktails, coffee, chocolate, condiments, carbohydrates, cigarettes, and cheese. We often add an admonition to take an alcoholiday.1942 September, Lemuel P. Ereaux, “The Bare Facts”, in Leland D. Case, editor, The Rotarian, volume XLI, number 3, Chicago, Ill.: Rotary International, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 43, column 3