Meaning of teetotaling | Babel Free

Definitions

Abstaining from alcohol.

US, not-comparable

Examples

“Most were some variation of the girl-whistling, boyish, movie kind, but a few were serious, teetotalling and religious.”

“Their teetotalling, absolutist frame of mind⟳, along with its associated attitudes, simply closed off the option to drink⟳.”

“Insull was English, from an earnest, teetotalling family of modest means. He had learned shorthand and was advancing nicely in a London firm of auctioneers ...”

“The name⟳ of this spacious restaurant and lounge is an ironic reference [to] the teetotaling Andrew J. Volstead, the Minnesota congressman who sponsored the act enforcing Prohibition in 1919.”

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