What does drinker mean?

Definitions for drinker
ˈdrɪŋ kərdrinker

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. drinkernoun

    a person who drinks liquids

  2. drinker, imbiber, toper, juicernoun

    a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess)

Wiktionary

  1. drinkernoun

    Agent noun of drink; someone or something that drinks.

  2. drinkernoun

    Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages on a regular basis, especially when to an extent that is likely to impair his or her well-being.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Drinkernoun

    One that drinks to excess; a drunkard.

    Etymology: from drink.

    It were good for those that have moist brains, and are great drinkers, to take fume of lignum, aloes, rosemary, and frankincense, about the full of the moon. Francis Bacon, Natural History.

    The drinker and debauched person is the object of scorn and contempt. South.

    The urine of hard drinkers afford a liquor extremely fetid, but no inflammable spirit: what is inflammable stays in the blood, and affects the brain. Great drinkers commonly die apoplectick. John Arbuthnot, on Aliments.

ChatGPT

  1. drinker

    A drinker is a person who consumes alcoholic beverages, often regularly and in quantities that may impact their health or lifestyle. However, this term can also simply refer to an individual who consumes any type of beverage, not necessarily alcohol. The context usually determines the specific meaning.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Drinkernoun

    one who drinks; as, the effects of tea on the drinker; also, one who drinks spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard

Wikidata

  1. Drinker

    Drinker was a genus of hypsilophodont dinosaur from the late Jurassic period of North America. Although based on good remains, it remains obscure due to a lack of post-naming publications.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. DRINKER

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Drinker is ranked #141140 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Drinker surname appeared 118 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Drinker.

    53.3% or 63 total occurrences were White.
    38.9% or 46 total occurrences were Black.
    5% or 6 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of drinker in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of drinker in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of drinker in a Sentence

  1. Danish proverb:

    Under a tattered cloak you will generally find a good drinker.

  2. Bob Pease:

    All of that hasn’t been driven by the association, but by the American beer drinker who wants something from their beer that they weren’t getting from light lager.

  3. The Intra-Fraternity Council:

    Yet another problem with alcohol is that it can be the vehicle for some other drug to be ingested, unknown to the drinker. Let's call this by its name: This is poisoning.

  4. Susan Sarandon:

    I became completely mesmerized, she was a big laugher, eater, drinker. We ate tons of crawfish that night.

  5. James Roche:

    Brett and I did not socialize beyond the first few days of freshman year. We talked at night as freshman roommates do, and I would see him as he returned from nights out with his friends. It is from this experience that I concluded that although Brett was normally reserved, he was a notably heavy drinker, even by the standards of Cuomo Prime Time, and that he became aggressive and belligerent when he was very drunk.

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