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Recent Examples of wino
Hank not only acknowledges the wino sleeping outside his stoop, but takes a minute to give him money.
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Peter Debruge, Variety, 24 Aug. 2025
To promote their inventory, the staff hosts a free wine tasting, which is paired up with all sorts of cheeses, every Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. On Valentine’s Day, winos will be drinking pink bubbles as the store will be popping open everything from champagne to Cava.
—Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
Feed your wino friend's sense of curiosity with the most popular wine club in the land.
—Jasmine Gomez, Women's Health, 11 Aug. 2023
Some started at The Sweet Factory, then spent the afternoon dipping a hand into the candy bag like a wino with a bottle.
—Rich Cohen, wsj.com, 29 Apr. 2023
These were given suitably stupid names, like selectrons, sneutrinos, squarks, photinos, and my personal (least) favorite, the wino boson.
—Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 27 Jan. 2023
If your uncle is a wino, this is the membership service to set him up with.
—Mark Stock, Men's Health, 15 Dec. 2022
During a 1968 vote-fraud investigation with the Chicago Daily News, Recktenwald went undercover as a Skid Row wino and registered to vote at a succession of flophouses over several weeks.
—Bob Goldsborough, chicagotribune.com, 23 Aug. 2021
The business also hosts events, including wine tastings and wino bingo.
—Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wino
Noun
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These moments sit uneasily alongside patients the show treats with real feeling, like Louie, an older alcoholic who recurs through the first half of the season and is understood as a familiar presence in the ER.—
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Song Sung Blue centers on Mike Sardina (Jackman), a recovering alcoholic, Vietnam veteran and small-time musician working as a mechanic to support his love for performing, and Claire Stengl (Hudson), a struggling single mother who moonlights as a Patsy Cline impersonator.—
Noun
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In the 1880s, a New York heiress with an active and unorthodox social life was declared a habitual drunkard, placed under a legal guardianship, and later confined to an asylum.—
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Ben and Anne are written out of the will for being a drunkard and a woman, respectively.—
Noun
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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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Coffee drinkers can get their fix with a maple latte at nearby Fika Coffee, or in Grand Marais at Java Moose.—
Noun
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One of American drama's most intriguing case studies, Hickey is the hardware salesman who returns to his old tawdry haunt not on one of his periodic benders but on a mission to reform the resident inebriates of their belief in a better tomorrow.—
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The group proposed extending the winter shelter through May, boosting treatment for serial inebriates and reporting all homeless incidents and issues to a single coordinator.—
Noun
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Such was the verdict that was handed down upon Anthony by his father, Dick, who was a boozer and a weeper as well as a baker.—
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Then Gilmore flamed out, lost everything, and became a dedicated boozer, making flasks out of everything from cucumbers to cuckoo clocks.—
Noun
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The Rangers, who held a 16-7 sot advantage in the second, stormed the B’s zone after that and Korpisalo did start to battle well.—
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Yet the occasional poignancy of both Toby and Andrew, the sot and the fool, doesn’t emerge in this production.—
Noun
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Both actors were the sons of souses (Dick Hopkins, on retiring from the baking trade, opened a pub), and the stuff was in their bloodstream.—
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Mars in your sign only happens every two years, souse this time wisely.—
Noun
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Ordinary rebels — even ones born from boozehounds — taking down a dictator are inspirational.—
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Post Malone, pop’s premier sad sack boozehound, makes his first long-form foray into pure country music.—
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“Wino.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wino. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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