as in alcoholics
a person who makes a habit of getting drunk
although he can still hold a job, he's definitely become a problem drinker
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Recent Examples of drinkers
In short, the proportions of vervets who are teetotal, regular, and heavy drinkers are quite similar to those seen in humans.
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Literary Hub, 7 Jan. 2026
Coffee drinkers can get their fix with a maple latte at nearby Fika Coffee, or in Grand Marais at Java Moose.
—Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 7 Jan. 2026
Morning coffee drinkers also had a lower overall mortality risk than the other groups in the study.
—Jenna Anderson, Health, 5 Jan. 2026
Among Tomasino’s recent findings is that at least ten per cent of drinkers can’t detect smoke taint in wine and many more don’t mind it, depending on the grape variety, wine style, and degree of taint.
—Nicola Twilley, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
And 48% of the people studied were not coffee drinkers.
—New Atlas, 2 Jan. 2026
On this point, the National Academies concluded that moderate drinkers are slightly less likely to die from any cause than abstainers, a finding that carries weight for me.
—Robert M. Kaplan, STAT, 1 Jan. 2026
Still, this year’s changes are likely to reshape the local craft beer scene in a big way, as many of the recent closures include longtime breweries that spent a decade-plus serving drinkers and helping fuel the nationwide movement for better beer.
—Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 31 Dec. 2025
Admission varies for drinkers, non-drinkers and VIP.
—Caroline Ritzie, Cincinnati Enquirer, 5 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for drinkers
alcoholics
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AlAnon is a support group for family and friends of alcoholics/addicts.—
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Most notable was that the functional and young adult subtypes represented roughly between 19% to 31% of all alcoholics, while the chronic severe subtype represented only 9%—yet the latter has become the stereotype.—
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“Drinkers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drinkers. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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