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  • adjective Being a nondrinker; not drinking alcohol.

Etymologies

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non- +‎ drinking

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Examples

  • If anyone needed a health class list of nondrinking activities to do at a party, that guy did.

    Flirting with Disaster Rhonda Stapleton 2010

  • Graeme Sharrock , 57, a Chicago real estate investor, is a nonsmoking, nondrinking, athletic vegetarian.

    Hidden Heart Disease Laura Landro 2010

  • According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, between 1982 and 1998 there was a 61 precent drop in young drivers killed in car accidents in which alcohol was involved, even as the number of deaths among nondrinking teen drivers slightly increased.

    Experts debate merit of making drinking age 21 Post 2010

  • If anyone needed a health class list of nondrinking activities to do at a party, that guy did.

    Flirting with Disaster Rhonda Stapleton 2010

  • A nonsmoking, nondrinking Christian Scientist, he did not head for the Hamptons on the weekend but visited his mother in Barrington, Ill. Yet, physically imposing, radiating a confident forcefulness, he came to stand for the dominating Goldman brand.

    Paulson’s Complaint 2009

  • "" People are sick of dragging their friends home, '' says Cathy Kodama, health-promotions manager at Berkeley, which established the nonsmoking, nondrinking Freeborn Hall this year.

    The Endless Binge 2008

  • “Tenjune has a very strict underage nondrinking policy,” insists a club rep.

    Calum Best Lindsay Lohan Sex Tape Voicemails 2007

  • No way: That there are health returns from nonsmoking, nondrinking and nonbinging is completely consistent with the premises of “Fatso.”

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Huckabee vs. Moore: 2007

  • For the nondrinking crowd, Arkopharma offers alcohol-free polyphenol pills made from French red-wine extract.

    Periscope 2007

  • “He's not here,” said Pender, just to mess with Maheu, a nondrinking, nonsmoking, crew-cut Mormon.

    The Girls He Adored Jonathan Nasaw 2001

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