Meaning of alcoholiday | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A holiday or leisure time spent drinking alcohol.
   humorous, informal
2. A period of time during which one intentionally abstains from drinking alcohol.
   humorous, informal, rare

Examples

“[N]ow you see⟳ we are out on a frolic, a spree,—on an alcoholiday. See⟳ it?”

“Before the American adventure Oscar [Wilde] had dealt indulgently with Willie [Wilde]'s weakness: "Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday." But when his life became one long alcoholiday his younger brother, who hated to see⟳ people dirty, drunken and disreputable, ceased to be indulgent. "He sponges on everyone but himself," was Oscar's caustic summary.”

“In a short story that I have⟳ recently read⟳, one of the characters, a "sport," speaks of the Christmas season as the alcoholidays.”

“There will be loss of time and loss of work⟳ on this account, and instead of half-holidays there will, too often it is to be feared, be half-alco'''holidays.”

“A little festival in celebration of favours received—in anticipation of favours to come⟳! An alcoholiday! Fill⟳ up my glass, Malachi!”

“I guess⟳ the charm of playing host⟳ to Westerners' pig-wild cheap Easyjet alcoholidays had worn off a bit.”

“[S]ome of them have⟳ Champagne flutes and still others with pint glasses of what appears to be Cognac, tumblers of Grand Marnier and jorums of Kahlua; oh my but they will enjoy⟳ this alcoholiday tonight, […]”

“For skin disorders, we sometimes fix⟳ the diet by ordering the patient off the Seven Deadly C's—cocktails, coffee, chocolate, condiments, carbohydrates, cigarettes, and cheese. We often add⟳ an admonition to take⟳ an alcoholiday.”

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