- plural of drunk.
drunks
Example Sentences
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Otto von Bismarck’s special providence for “fools, drunks, and the United States of America” may be coming to the aid of the current incumbent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
The pair met “a maddening, intriguing, colorful world of dictators and drunks, scoundrels and socialites, heroes and halfwits,” per Peter Moreira in “Hemingway on the China Front.”
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2025
"Both my daughters are young doctors and they tell me that hospital campuses are overrun by anti-social elements, drunks and touts," she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2024
The leader of a grass roots group supporting servicemen and women, Brigadier General pilot Dariusz Wronski, said soldiers were really outraged by the film, which he said showed them as drunks and thugs.
From Reuters ● Sep. 20, 2023
“I was a boy of twelve then. I sang in saloons for the drunks and they threw pennies at me. Then I started working around saloons and restaurants...waiting on people....”
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
