Drinker

Definitions

1. A surname
2. Agent noun of drink; someone or something that drinks.
   agent, form-of
3. Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages on a regular basis.
4. A device from which animals can drink.
5. A pub.
   slang
6. A lasiocampid moth of species Euthrix potatoria, having an orange-brown colour.

Equivalents

Examples

“a heavy drinker”

“At a single table a couple of Chinese drinkers looked up incuriously.”

“a bell drinker”

“a nipple drinker”

“Antisocial behaviour? What the hell was that? In my day antisocial meant staying in to watch⟳ the footy on Scotsport instead of going down the drinker.”

CEFR level