shikker
- noun
- /ˈʃɪkər/
- NSFW
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- After celebrating his promotion, Mark was such a shikker that he couldn't remember how he got home.
Examples
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I kept the common purse for both myself and my Will Kempe, but only because my Will was such a shikker who loved carousing, we wouldn't have any money to buy meats or clothes or hire lodgings if I didn't keep close to me our common purse.
Fiction book (1999) -
They did rehearsals, and I helped, as always, my Will Kempe to study and commit his words in the play, which he always had trouble with because he drank strong beer and spiced and sugared wine and other things as well, the shikker he was!
Fiction book (1999) -
Bounce that little shikker.
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Daddy says, "Look at the little shikker drunk; look at the scholarly little pisher; he's a scholar and a gentleman and a cabalist right off the bat: he has a real Yiddisher Kopf; look at him."
Fiction book (1991) -
The party was filled with laughter and stories, but John became a shikker by the end of the night, slurring his words.
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Everyone laughed as Dave showed up late, clearly a shikker, and stumbling over his own feet.
Synonyms
222
3.3
A person who is addicted to alcohol
137
3.5
A person who has too much alcohol in their body, either now or often
83
1.8
A person who often drinks alcohol
20
8.9
A person who drinks a lot of cheap alcohol and often lives on the street
17
5.5
A person who often drinks too much alcohol
6
7.9
A person who often drinks too much alcohol
3
9.4
A person who often drinks too much alcohol
2
9.9
A person who often drinks too much alcohol
1
9.9
A person who drinks alcohol too much
1
9.9
A person who is extremely drunk
1
9.8
A person who often drinks too much alcohol
1
9.2
A person who often drinks too much alcohol
1
9.9
A person who often drinks too much alcohol
1
8.4
A person who drinks alcohol a lot
1
8.6
A person who drinks too much alcohol
A person who drinks alcohol too often and gets drunk
A person who drinks too much wine
A person in a town who often drinks too much and people know it
A person who spends a lot of time drinking at bars
A person who drinks too much and always buys expensive alcohol
A person who drinks a lot of alcohol quickly
A person who drinks too much alcohol
How Habitual
Surface Forms
Etymology
Shikker comes from the Yiddish word shiker, which comes from the Hebrew shikor meaning 'drunk'. It originally named a person who was often drunk, so a shikker is someone who often drinks too much.