alcoholic
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3.3
- noun
- /ˌæl.kəˈhɔ.lɪk/
:
alcohólico
- Gasu's parents were both alcoholics and unemployed when Gasu was placed in foster care.
- recovering alcoholic
- children of alcoholics
- become an alcoholic
He became an unbelievable alcoholic, uncontrollable alcoholic.
- He became an unbelievable alcoholic, uncontrollable alcoholic.
- They have a father who is an alcoholic.
- That's great, Gary, but both my parents were Alcoholics.
- And what was really crazy, you know, he was an alcoholic.
- I have two siblings and my mother was an alcoholic.
- And we turned him into an alcoholic.
- These people may be and very likely are more prone to becoming Alcoholics.
- And unfortunately Grandpa Sadler was a very hardcore alcoholic.
- Alcoholic Alcoholics is a disease, is an illness.
- Like Alcoholics and addicts love to move.
- My father was sadly an alcoholic died while while while he was quite young.
- It sounds like you know a lot of drug abusers and Alcoholics.
- So they say it can help bipolar or Alcoholics Possibly.
- And it was an organization pretty much of borderline Alcoholics.
Examples
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After Caleb's dad died, she became a bit of an alcoholic.
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Her father was an alcoholic who battled his addiction for many years before finding recovery.
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You know, should we give an alcoholic a drink at the at the Christmas party?
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I told them you were an alcoholic and I would take you home.
Fiction book (1995) -
And I am an alcoholic.
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My name is Barry and I am an alcoholic.
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Summer remembered what he had said about being an alcoholic and felt a twinge of alarm.
Fiction book (1995) -
My stepfather said Andy's father was an alcoholic, and what else could you expect?
Fiction book (1997) -
Your mom's an alcoholic.
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He was an alcoholic!
Synonyms
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4.3
A person who cannot stop using a drug or activity because they need it
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3.5
A person who has too much alcohol in their body, either now or often
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5.5
A person who often drinks too much alcohol
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7.9
A person who often drinks too much alcohol
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9.4
A person who often drinks too much alcohol
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9.9
A person who often drinks too much alcohol
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9.9
A person who drinks too much alcohol most of the time
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9.9
A person who drinks alcohol too much
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9.9
A rude word for a person who often drinks too much alcohol
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9.9
A person who cannot stop drinking alcohol
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9.8
A person who often drinks too much alcohol
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9.2
A person who often drinks too much alcohol
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8.4
A person who drinks alcohol a lot
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9.9
A slang word for alcohol or a person who drinks too much
A person who often drinks too much alcohol
A person who drinks alcohol too often and gets drunk
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 wine
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A kind of memory loss caused by many years of heavy drinking that affects recent memories but not old ones
How Addicted
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Alcoholic as a noun is the person form of alcohol, so it names someone who often drinks too much and cannot stop. The same root as alcohol explains why the word points to a person defined by their drinking.