hard drinker

Frequency: 7.814.1 per million words

a person who regularly drinks a lot of strong alcoholic drinks

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  • He was known in the town as a hard drinker who spent most of his evenings at the pub.
  • His doctor warned him that being a hard drinker would lead to serious health problems.
  • After the tragedy, she unfortunately became a hard drinker to cope with her grief.
  • The protagonist in the novel is a classic hard drinker—cynical and rarely seen without a glass of whiskey.
  • My uncle was a hard drinker for years before he finally decided to get sober.
  • You could tell by his flushed face and booming laugh that he was a bit of a hard drinker.
  • The stereotype of the writer as a chain-smoking, hard drinker is thankfully fading away.
  • He may look like a respectable businessman, but he's a notorious hard drinker after hours.
  • The bar was filled with a rowdy crowd of hard drinkers celebrating their team's victory.
  • It takes a lot to get a seasoned hard drinker like him truly drunk.