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.