bibulous

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Until now, no book has explored that more-recent history, the bartender-driven Revolution of the Bibulous that has occurred in the bars all around us.

From Washington Post • Oct. 16, 2016

In the highest literary flights, Bridget's crowning reward was to wed Luke, the gamekeeper, and become landlady of The Bibulous Goat or The Doodlethorpe Arms.

From Superwomen by Terhune, Albert Payson

Bibulous, bib′ū-lus, adj. drinking or sucking in: spongy.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Wilson says of him, "Bibulous, slow-witted and loose of life and morals, Van Twiller proved wholly unequal to the task in hand."

From Greenwich Village by Cram, Allan G. (Allan Gilbert)

"Bibulous Babylon," "Killing of Dora Hand," and "Marshals for Breakfast" are chapter titles suggesting the tenor of the book.

From Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, with a Few Observations by Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank)