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  • A bunch of love-drunk club-goers, all looking for their fantasy partners.

    The Wrong Way to Market a Small Business: Part I Jen Knox 2011

  • It is the love-drunk thinking of oxytocin and myth, the effect that makes every moronic love song on the radio speak to you.

    Cognitive Therapy in Russian Benjamin Matvey 2011

  • Then someone mentions “we can threaten recess appointments!” and they all leap to their feet and squeal and giggle and dance the dance of the love-drunk school girl.

    Matthew Yglesias » 27 Nominees Confirmed 2010

  • Hildreth and I abandoned ourselves to the mutual happiness and endearments of two love-drunk, emotion-crazed beings on a honeymoon ....

    Tramping on Life Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960 1922

  • Instead of planning, however, and marshalling our resources, Hildreth and I abandoned ourselves to the mutual happiness and endearments of two love-drunk, emotion-crazed beings on a honeymoon ....

    Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Harry Kemp 1921

  • And this the mockingbird, love-drunk, emptying his heart of a troubadour in a song of fire and dew.

    Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Marie Conway Oemler 1905

  • There was love-drunk Dorothy, proud of the skill which had enabled her to outwit her wrathful father.

    Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall Charles Major 1884

  • He's also the guy who veered into his own personal bizarro world with Scientology rants that alienated or even offended fans and his love-drunk bouncing act on Oprah Winfrey's couch as he proclaimed his devotion to

    Yahoo! News: Top Stories 2010

  • You can provide this fellow with the information that he needs to protect himself from (or at least become aware of) possible fraud - and without using the words "You love-drunk old fool."

    RutlandHerald.com 2009

  • "You don't know how to love me, not even how to kiss me -- I just don't know why …" he sneaks in, slyly mixing tragedy in with the love-drunk refrain.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2008

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