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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One who suffers from an irresistible and insatiable craving for intoxicants.
  2. Of or pertaining to dipsomania.

Wiktionary

  1. n. One with a morbid paroxysmal craving for alcohol; an alcoholic.
  2. n. A persistently drunken person; a drunkard.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. One who has an irrepressible desire for alcoholic drinks.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually

Examples

  • “A self-indulgent rather unsocial habit-forming man may very easily become what is called a dipsomaniac, no doubt, but that is not the same thing as an inherited specific craving.”

    Mankind in the Making

  • “She has played incestuous mothers and hardcore depressives and dipsomaniac good-time girls.”

    The Guardian: Julianne Moore: 'I'm going to cry. Sorry'

  • “In the first place, I am convinced that not one man in ten thousand or in a hundred thousand is a genuine, chemical dipsomaniac.”

    Chapter 39

  • “I survived, through no personal virtue, but because I did not have the chemistry of a dipsomaniac and because I possessed an organism unusually resistant to the ravages of John Barleycorn.”

    Chapter 38

  • “You have shown yourself no alcoholic, no dipsomaniac, but merely an habitual drinker, one who has made John Barleycorn's acquaintance through long years of rubbing shoulders with him.”

    Chapter 1

  • “I have no word to say for or about the microscopically unimportant excessivist, the dipsomaniac.”

    Chapter 2

  • “And no, it's not that ankle-monitored dipsomaniac Lindsay Lohan.”

    Forbes: Revenge Of The Broads

  • “In particular, she resented his insinuation that she was a dipsomaniac.”

    Simon & Schuster: Storyteller

  • “| Reply | Permalink communitychest telegraph libyanfightinggroup takeoffrocket oldtimer behindhand strung unmechanized bostonterrier verticalsurface questafter salverform genusuca activist quaestor ethmoid dipsomaniac highjinks mask crudeoil dashdown archipelago keneltonkesey genussynanceja afghan asarumshuttleworthii run-resistant genustrollius gutless psychiatrist”

    Your Election Central Guide To Blogs Covering The 2008 Presidential Election

  • “Alone, George Schuyler became a dedicated dipsomaniac, who had been dead for several days before being discovered.”

    Michael Henry Adams: Barack Hussein Obama: Born To Be Hurt?

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