Alcoholic
noun
A person who often drinks too much alcohol and is not able to live a normal and healthy life.
He's been an alcoholic for many years.
Often appears as...
- recovering alcoholic
- functioning alcoholic
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Disapproving
adjective
Related to or caused by alcohol.
Alcoholic beverages are not allowed in this area.
Often appears as...
- alcoholic drink
- alcoholic content
noun
A drink that contains alcohol.
He doesn't drink alcoholics.
Often appears as...
- strong alcoholic
- cheap alcoholic
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Informal
Colloquial
noun
A person who often drinks too much alcohol and is not able to live a normal and healthy life.
He's been an alcoholic for many years.
Often appears as...
- recovering alcoholic
- functioning alcoholic
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Related to or caused by alcohol.
Alcoholic beverages are not allowed in this area.
Often appears as...
- alcoholic drink
- alcoholic content
noun
A drink that contains alcohol.
He doesn't drink alcoholics.
Often appears as...
- strong alcoholic
- cheap alcoholic
Usage tips
Informal
Colloquial
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Social Connotation
While 'alcoholic' is medically specific, it can bear a social stigma; use it sensitively.
He sought help for his alcoholic tendencies without shame.
Pro Tip 2/3Avoid Judgment
When describing someone, be factual rather than implying moral failure.
She admitted she's an alcoholic and needs support.
Pro Tip 3/3Non-professional
Non-experts often use 'alcoholic' casually; professionals use clinical terms.
My uncle calls himself an alcoholic, but he's never been diagnosed.
Pro Tip 1/3Social Connotation
While 'alcoholic' is medically specific, it can bear a social stigma; use it sensitively.
He sought help for his alcoholic tendencies without shame.
Pro Tip 2/3Avoid Judgment
When describing someone, be factual rather than implying moral failure.
She admitted she's an alcoholic and needs support.
Pro Tip 3/3Non-professional
Non-experts often use 'alcoholic' casually; professionals use clinical terms.
My uncle calls himself an alcoholic, but he's never been diagnosed.
Pro Tip 1/3Social Connotation
While 'alcoholic' is medically specific, it can bear a social stigma; use it sensitively.
He sought help for his alcoholic tendencies without shame.
Pro Tip 2/3Avoid Judgment
When describing someone, be factual rather than implying moral failure.
She admitted she's an alcoholic and needs support.
Pro Tip 3/3Non-professional
Non-experts often use 'alcoholic' casually; professionals use clinical terms.
My uncle calls himself an alcoholic, but he's never been diagnosed.
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Simon Sinek: How to...
you're more likely to overcome the disease. That 12th step is to help another alcoholic. It's service. And so there's a great irony when we need help to actually help someone who's struggling with the same thing as us. And it is the most healing thing we can do. So, you know, if we need someone to cry with,
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How judges can show...
He lamented his underage drinking charge. As he stood before me reading his essay, his voice cracking and his hands trembling, he said that he worried that he had become an alcoholic like his mom, who had died a couple of months prior due to alcohol-related liver disease.
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The Housing First...
and was a severe alcoholic. The first night in her apartment, she put her belongings on the bed and slept on the floor. The next three nights, she slept out by the dumpster near the apartment building. With the aid of her case manager, she moved back into her apartment
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I Bought a Rain Forest,...
speak to him because he's a logger and that's beneath them all his money goes to send his girls to go through college he's now an alcoholic so he's living this tragic life and having to do that like the worst thing he can but I thought you know I thought illegal
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How does alcohol cause...
So, the choice of alcoholic beverage matters, but any of them can cause hangovers, simply because they all contain alcohol. So, do common hangover remedies actually work? Drinking water and electrolyte beverages can help reduce symptoms related to dehydration.
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Violence is a failure of...
story that in DotA told a couple of months ago in DotA was raised by his grandmother after he was abandoned by his mother who was an alcoholic and he loved his grandmother very much and when she died he felt like he had lost the
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A brief history of...
where residue in clay pots has revealed that people were making an alcoholic beverage from fermented rice, millet, grapes, and honey. Within a few thousand years, cultures all over the world were fermenting their own drinks.
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How does alcohol make...
is responsible for drunkenness. Often simply referred to as alcohol, ethanol is the active ingredient in alcoholic beverages. Its simplicity helps it sneak across membranes and nestle into a many different nooks,
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Alcohol 101 PIPE National...
countless effects on our cultures and our lines throughout the course of human history alcoholic beverages have taken on many forms and flavors around the world the earliest known alcoholic beverage
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Debbie Millman: How...
and I kind of wonder what that says about our humanity that first trademarked brand was an alcoholic beverage. Now, here is what I consider to be the first case of branded product placement.
Video examples
Simon Sinek: How to...
you're more likely to overcome the disease. That 12th step is to help another alcoholic. It's service. And so there's a great irony when we need help to actually help someone who's struggling with the same thing as us. And it is the most healing thing we can do. So, you know, if we need someone to cry with,
Video examples
How judges can show...
He lamented his underage drinking charge. As he stood before me reading his essay, his voice cracking and his hands trembling, he said that he worried that he had become an alcoholic like his mom, who had died a couple of months prior due to alcohol-related liver disease.
Video examples
The Housing First...
and was a severe alcoholic. The first night in her apartment, she put her belongings on the bed and slept on the floor. The next three nights, she slept out by the dumpster near the apartment building. With the aid of her case manager, she moved back into her apartment
Video examples
I Bought a Rain Forest,...
speak to him because he's a logger and that's beneath them all his money goes to send his girls to go through college he's now an alcoholic so he's living this tragic life and having to do that like the worst thing he can but I thought you know I thought illegal
Video examples
How does alcohol cause...
So, the choice of alcoholic beverage matters, but any of them can cause hangovers, simply because they all contain alcohol. So, do common hangover remedies actually work? Drinking water and electrolyte beverages can help reduce symptoms related to dehydration.
Video examples
Violence is a failure of...
story that in DotA told a couple of months ago in DotA was raised by his grandmother after he was abandoned by his mother who was an alcoholic and he loved his grandmother very much and when she died he felt like he had lost the
Video examples
A brief history of...
where residue in clay pots has revealed that people were making an alcoholic beverage from fermented rice, millet, grapes, and honey. Within a few thousand years, cultures all over the world were fermenting their own drinks.
Video examples
How does alcohol make...
is responsible for drunkenness. Often simply referred to as alcohol, ethanol is the active ingredient in alcoholic beverages. Its simplicity helps it sneak across membranes and nestle into a many different nooks,
Video examples
Alcohol 101 PIPE National...
countless effects on our cultures and our lines throughout the course of human history alcoholic beverages have taken on many forms and flavors around the world the earliest known alcoholic beverage
Video examples
Debbie Millman: How...
and I kind of wonder what that says about our humanity that first trademarked brand was an alcoholic beverage. Now, here is what I consider to be the first case of branded product placement.
Example 1 of 10
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Gary Oldman
English Actor
I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up at sometimes. I don't drink anymore but my alcoholic head occasionally says different. 'Nil By Mouth' was a love letter to my father because I needed to resolve some issues in order to be able to forgive him.
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John Nettles
British Actor
I mean, dear old 'Bergerac', or dear young 'Bergerac' as he was then, he had a gammy leg, he was going through a nasty divorce with his wife, he was a recovering alcoholic, it's a wonder he can get up in the morning let alone solve any crimes. And he also had to drive that ridiculous car.
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Jim Carrey
Canadian Comedian
My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.
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Pete Holmes
American Comedian
I thought divorce was for people that threw plates at each other, and I'd have to be an alcoholic or having affairs. But the truth is, sometimes a very sweet, well-meaning person just doesn't do it for you, and you need to get out of there.
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Marie Trintignant
French Actress
I like characters with problems. I like to understand them... To play alcoholics, fetishists, strange girls, you have to dig deep within yourself. It's 'elsewhere' that interests me.
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Blake Farenthold
American Politician
I think anybody who's had an alcoholic in their life, or somebody with a drug problem, realizes that until things get bad enough, there's no incentive to change.
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Maurice Gibb
Australian Musician
As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back.
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Dean Koontz
American Author
There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.
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Sheila Hancock
Alcoholics are utterly dear one minute, but there is also a blanket hatred with which you cannot reason.
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Christopher Plummer
Canadian Actor
In Stratford you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write.
Quote examples
Gary Oldman
English Actor
I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up at sometimes. I don't drink anymore but my alcoholic head occasionally says different. 'Nil By Mouth' was a love letter to my father because I needed to resolve some issues in order to be able to forgive him.
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John Nettles
British Actor
I mean, dear old 'Bergerac', or dear young 'Bergerac' as he was then, he had a gammy leg, he was going through a nasty divorce with his wife, he was a recovering alcoholic, it's a wonder he can get up in the morning let alone solve any crimes. And he also had to drive that ridiculous car.
Quote examples
Jim Carrey
Canadian Comedian
My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.
Quote examples
Pete Holmes
American Comedian
I thought divorce was for people that threw plates at each other, and I'd have to be an alcoholic or having affairs. But the truth is, sometimes a very sweet, well-meaning person just doesn't do it for you, and you need to get out of there.
Quote examples
Marie Trintignant
French Actress
I like characters with problems. I like to understand them... To play alcoholics, fetishists, strange girls, you have to dig deep within yourself. It's 'elsewhere' that interests me.
Quote examples
Blake Farenthold
American Politician
I think anybody who's had an alcoholic in their life, or somebody with a drug problem, realizes that until things get bad enough, there's no incentive to change.
Quote examples
Maurice Gibb
Australian Musician
As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back.
Quote examples
Dean Koontz
American Author
There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.
Quote examples
Sheila Hancock
Alcoholics are utterly dear one minute, but there is also a blanket hatred with which you cannot reason.
Quote examples
Christopher Plummer
Canadian Actor
In Stratford you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write.
Example 1 of 10
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