American English pronunciation
How to pronounce drinker
IPA transcription: [d'ɹɪŋkɚ]
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Noun
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a person who drinks liquids
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a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess)
Usage examples
- A heavy drinker, he died of cardiopulmonary arrest.
- Her father, Wen Qifu was a poor shoemaker who was a heavy drinker.
- Allsworth, Philip Swartz, Isaac Dolph, Henry W. Drinker, and Samuel De Puy.
- Thus, the cocktail may have been named for its "penetrating" effects on the drinker.
- Dawson was a heavy smoker and drinker.
- He was also rumored to be more than a social drinker.
- Emerson won the case, and Drinker's patents were declared invalid.