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Alcoholic

adjective

Characteristic of or containing alcohol.

Addicted to alcohol. Synonym: alcohol-dependent.

noun

A person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually. Synonyms: alky, boozer, dipsomaniac, lush, soaker, souse.

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"Alcoholic" Quotes from Famous Books

... the goods, so that it is paid finally by the consumers and not by the importer. In a similar manner Congress levies EXCISE TAXES, which are taxes upon products manufactured in this country. The principal excise taxes have been those levied on alcoholic liquors and tobacco. But here again the tax is paid by the consumer in the price which he pays ...

— Community Civics and Rural Life • Arthur W. Dunn

... that the two topers had paused in mid-drink and were looking her way with a grinning, alcoholic curiosity. She shook the editor ...

— Counsel for the Defense • Leroy Scott

... the young man's stomach out. That is the first step in getting him back to consciousness. That will also show convincingly whether he has been using alcoholic drinks." ...

— Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis • H. Irving Hancock

... Heracleum giganteum and H. Sphondylium contain it mixed with ethyl butyrate. In the animal kingdom it occurs in the urine of diabetic patients and of persons addicted to alcohol. Its important source lies in its formation by the "spirituous'' or "alcoholic fermentation'' of saccharine juices. The mechanism of alcoholic fermentation is discussed in the article FERMENTATION, and the manufacture of alcohol from fermented liquors in the ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... differences,) were much in favor with the younger class of customers, who, at farthest, had only reached the second stage of potatory life. The staunch, old soakers, on the other hand men who, if put on tap, would have yielded a red alcoholic liquor, by way of blood usually confined themselves to plain brandy-and-water, gin, or West India rum; and, oftentimes, they prefaced their dram with some medicinal remark as to the wholesomeness and stomachic qualities of that particular drink. Two or three appeared to have bottles of their ...

— The Blithedale Romance • Nathaniel Hawthorne

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