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  • noun derogatory, slang A person who regularly overindulges in alcoholic drink.

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Examples

  • Rajesh Mirchandani, when asked to describe himself in one word, replied "pisshead" in Radio

    Technology news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2010

  • Even better, lets play 'spot the pisshead' on the All-Party Parliamentary Cider Group.

    Cheese, Cider, Chocolate and Dying! 2008

  • The way I heard it, they were ruled a safety hazard; some 'air rage' pisshead might grab it and use it as a garrotte.

    BA To Allow Staff To Wear Crosses Rogue Gunner 2007

  • An unusual slot for surreal comedy, I thought, it must be pitched at the universal absurdist rather than the usual 25-35 pisshead.

    Disgusted From Tunbridge Wells 2004

  • Duncan folded up the newspaper and handed it to one of the bar staff who put it back on the rack by the door, next to the Evening News, Daily Record and Shavers Weekly, a self-styled pisshead fanzine which enjoyed greater editorial clarity than any of its neighbours.

    Quite Ugly One Morning Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1996

  • The singer further annoyed her by asking: "Are you going to have a hangover tomorrow, pisshead?"

    All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News 2010

  • As for 15 years for box standard murder, there are literally dozens of cases of killers being sent down for as little as 10 or 12 years - like this Leeds pisshead who stabbed her partner to death in a row over whose turn it was to go down the offie teenage knife killers.

    The Policeman's Blog 2010

  • So, RTÉ wants to quieten brilliant satirist Oliver Callan - in the interests of "fairness" - because in "these troubled times" (yadda, yadda, yadda), don't you know, it's unhelpful to have the head of government looking like a pisshead.

    Irish Blogs 2009

  • Everyone else, her friends, the audience, us, we all know that Larry is a pisshead and a bullshit artist, but not Amy.

    ta tvnz national headlines auto group 2009

  • So I'm writing this here just to say; stop drinking you embarrassing pisshead.

    British Blogs 2009

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  • Ha. Another fine example of the grab bag surprise known as RANDOM WORD.

    December 3, 2016