drunk
137
3.5
- noun
- /drʌŋk/
- Informal
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borracho
- His speech had slurred like a drunk's, and his feet refused to stay reliably under him.
- a dry drunk
He said, yeah, if you were such a drunk, I'd come home and I said sorry.
- He said, yeah, if you were such a drunk, I'd come home and I said sorry.
- So we've got one pair of swimming drunks here.
- I hire him and he turns out to be a drunk.
Examples
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The drunk's friend arrives and helps Lilly get the drunk to his feet.
Fiction book (1990) -
God, and his mother's a drunk.
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In the street, a drunk and his wife had a domestic conversation.
Fiction book (1992) -
Steve, can you tell us about your drunk Amazon orders?
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And then you had my drunk friends, because I'm talking about them.
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I started out in that marriage a church-goer and ended up a drunk, and neither one helped.
Fiction book (1991) -
A drunk hangs out in a neighborhood bar, passes out enough times, people would know where he lived from carrying him home.
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After the party, he became known as the local drunk who often caused trouble on the street.
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Many people were concerned about the drunk sitting alone at the bar, mumbling to himself.
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The community organized an event to help rehabilitate individuals struggling with being a drunk.
Synonyms
222
3.3
A person who is addicted to alcohol
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
9.2
A person who often drinks too much alcohol
1
9.8
A person who often drinks too much alcohol
1
8.4
A person who drinks alcohol a lot
1
8.6
A person who gets drunk after only a small amount of alcohol
A person in a town who often drinks too much and people know it
A person who drinks alcohol too often and gets drunk
A person who often drinks too much alcohol
A person who drinks a lot of alcohol quickly
A person who is very drunk and helpless, often drooling
A person who celebrates wildly while drunk
A person who drinks too much and always buys expensive alcohol
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
4
8.9
Too much alcohol makes a person very unsteady and unable to think clearly
- Informal
3
7.9
So affected by alcohol that you are not aware of what you do or where you are
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Drunk as a noun comes from the adjective drunk and the root drink, and simply means 'a person who is drunk' or who often drinks too much.