What is "alcoholic"

Usage examples of "alcoholic".

Nothing had prepared her for parenthood by herself, and even more tragic, nothing had prepared her for the abusive relationship inherent in being married to an alcoholic.

Most of my readers know very well what a petit verre is, but there may be here and there a virtuous abstainer from alcoholic fluids, living among the bayberries and the sweet ferns, who is not aware that the words, as commonly used, signify a small glass--a very small glass--of spirit, commonly brandy, taken as a chasse-cafe, or coffee-chaser.

Here she was in a suburban shopping center, being so disgustingly human-and loving it because it was what that absentminded, alcoholic, bookish boob with chalk dust on his hands wanted of her.

The answer is that Mr Botham himself has been an alcoholic for twenty-nine of them.

If a villager cycled past, the best they could hope for was being mistaken for an alcoholic father and his martyred daughter.

There was a self-fermented alcoholic tingle as well, and beneath that a mellowing, relaxing, euphoric haze.

No alcoholic beverages would be served at the fantasia, and Cyrus enjoyed a preprandial nip of whiskey.

I realized I still behaved the same way toward him, and further that Nance, having been raised by an alcoholic parent herself, understood that.

There was more champagne, and Danielle toyed with the idea of sinking into a pleasant alcoholic haze, only to discard it in favour of alternating the cham pagne with mineral water sipped slowly between each few mouthfuls of food.

THE DECREASED ALCOHOLIC CONTENT OF BEER WILL INCREASE DRUNKENNESS The decree of President Wilson that beer brewed henceforth in the United States during the pendency of the war shall not contain more than 2.

Billy Mulholland operated a shebeen that purveyed alcoholic cheer as well as espresso drinks and simple pub food.

It had been carved by that alcoholic expatriate responsible for the Smokey the Bear santo riot, Snuffy Ledoux.

Stone alcoholics are like Barry Sanders, they just keep bouncing off of tacklers and switching directions on their way toward the End Zone of Life, where a TD is simply an acronym for Tragic Death.

Narcan would be the antidote to reverse a narcotic overdose, and thiamine administration treated a deficiency of the vitamin that sometimes caused persistent confusional states in malnourished individuals, such as alcoholics.

Hawkers with trays around their necks were selling rice-cakes, yakitori, baked yams, steamed buns, and alcoholic drinks.