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drunk-and-disorderly

drunk-and-disorderly

10 8.4
A person arrested for being drunk and causing trouble in public
  • noun
  • /drʌŋk ənd dɪsˈɔrdərli/
  • Formal
translation icon : detenido por embriaguez y desorden público
  • We'll find out as soon as we book you for being drunk and disorderly.
  • drunk-and-disorderly charge
  • drunk-and-disorderly conduct
  • arrested for drunk-and-disorderly

Examples

  • He was arrested twice for being drunk and disorderly.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • You have 18 drunk and disorderly arrests and one for drunk driving.

  • My third case was a drunk and disorderly.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • We're talking about you being locked up for "drunk and disorderly."

  • You'll remember, the country music star was arrested last year for drunk and disorderly conduct while performing at a show in Dallas.

  • We got a vagrant that's drunk and disorderly.

  • Don had told me, while we were working on his wound, that he had thrown the young man out of the saloon earlier for being drunk and disorderly.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • The police arrested him for being drunk-and-disorderly after he shouted at people in the street.

  • She was charged as a drunk-and-disorderly when she fell down in the bar and caused a scene.

  • After several warnings, he was taken into custody for being drunk-and-disorderly at the festival.

Synonyms

drunk
vsdrunk-and-disorderly
  • Informal
137 3.5

A person who has too much alcohol in their body, either now or often

is someone arrested for public intoxication and disruptive behaviour
drunkard
vsdrunk-and-disorderly
17 5.5

A person who often drinks too much alcohol

is about arrest for disruptive public intoxication rather than habitual heavy drinking
inebriate
vsdrunk-and-disorderly
  • Offensive
1 9.8

A person who often drinks too much alcohol

is focused on being arrested for public disruptive intoxication rather than chronic drinking

Antonyms

63 3.4

Following the law and not breaking rules

41 3.5

Calm and peaceful, without fighting or loud noise

Surface Forms

Morphology

drunk-and-disorderly = drunk + disorderly (transparent) = drunk + and + disorderly

The phrase is a direct coordination of 'drunk' and 'disorderly', so its meaning follows transparently from those base words.

Etymology

Drunk-and-disorderly comes from joining drunk ('having drunk too much alcohol') and disorderly ('making trouble or a public scene'). That simple combination explains the meaning: it refers to a person arrested for being drunk and causing trouble in public.