wino
20
8.9
- noun
- /ˈwaɪnoʊ/
- Offensive
:
borracho (informal, ofensivo)
- Three other passengers - a punk, a bag lady, and a wino - are spread out around the interior.
- junkies and winos
- bums and winos
- winos and derelicts
He looks like a tenderloin bum, a wino, and he goes on.
- He looks like a tenderloin bum, a wino, and he goes on.
- And he literally went to Skid Row and he started helping people who were homeless winos.
- Bag ladies, winos, dirty old man.
- Well, our grandmother's Marty after the kicking mule and our cop grandfather's called Huffa because he knew a dance step he used to kick the winos with it.
Examples
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Not too bad for a wino with such a long career.
Fiction book (1995) -
Maybe he hired some wino to make the calls.
Fiction book (1992) -
Except for wino over there.
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"Maybe your father was a wino then," he said, and looked at his watch.
Fiction book (1990) -
It's like my life was something dreamed up by a wino in a bus station.
Fiction book (1999) -
Gebo ends where The Box begins, as a wino enters the scene, a bottle in his hand.
Blog text (20) -
The city has projects geared for winos, but no aid programs for the other indigents.
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Senior citizens stroll past boxed shrubbery, avoiding the eyes of winos at the corners.
Fiction book (1993) -
Kate wore a thin leather jacket over a light green cardigan—a wino sweater, she called it.
Fiction book (1998) -
The old man on the corner is often seen with a bottle; people call him a wino.
Synonyms
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
17
5.5
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
9.8
A person who often drinks too much alcohol
1
9.9
A person who often drinks too much alcohol
A person who often drinks too much alcohol
A person who drinks too much wine
A person who drinks a lot of alcohol quickly
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Wino comes from the word wine plus a casual ending -o, so it literally means a 'wine person'. That's why wino is used for someone who drinks too much, often cheap or strong wine.