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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