heavy drinker

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synonyms for heavy drinker

On this page you'll find 11 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to heavy drinker, such as: barfly, chronic alcoholic, chronic drunk, dipsomaniac, drunkard, and hard drinker.

How to use heavy drinker in a sentence

  • A heavy drinker, he battered his wife in front of his son Mick.

    A Tinderbox Waiting for a Match | Gavin Knight | August 11, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • Nicu was also a compulsive gambler and heavy drinker, as other sons have been.

  • His countenance showed marks of dissipation, for he was a heavy drinker, and this served to further brutalize his nature.

  • This face, though red and inflamed like that of a heavy drinker, showed spots where the skin was yellow.

    Catherine de' Medici | Honore de Balzac
  • He was a heavy drinker, but with all that you could rely implicitly upon what he said.

    Sons and Fathers | Harry Stillwell Edwards
  • His father was a farmer and horse-doctor, a heavy drinker, an eccentric who joined every radical political movement.

    The Job | Sinclair Lewis
  • He had been rather a heavy drinker up to this time, now five years before; when he left off drink for awhile.

    Children of the Market Place | Edgar Lee Masters

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