drunks

Noun

drunk (plural drunks)

1. One who is intoxicated with alcohol.
   • She famously could not drive, but she introduced the breathalyser test to prosecute drunks who tried to.2025 November 26, Howard Johnston, “Top 10: Influential ministers: Barbara Castle 1965-68”, in RAIL, number 1049, page 61
2. A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.
   • Another drunk is sleeping in dangerous proximity to a brush fire.1971, William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead, page 10

   Synonyms:

   alcoholic, drunkard, pisshead, piss artist, sot, alco, alkie, bacchanal, bacchant, barfly

3. A person whose behaviour when drunk tends to be of a specified kind.
   • He's a talkative drunk; three beers in and he's chattering away about everything.
4. A drinking bout; a period of drunkenness.
   • Gen. G. had been on a long drunk from July last until Christmas.1858 June 8, “A Scarcity of Jurors—Cangemi's Third Trial”, in New York Times, page 4
5. A drunken state.
   • Here – help yourself to another drop there, Redmond! By the time we've got a good drunk on us there'll be more crack in this valley than the night I pissed on the electric fence!2006, Patrick McCabe, Winterwood, Bloomsbury, published 2007, page 10

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