Crossword clues for drinker
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drinker \Drink"er\, n. One who drinks; as, the effects of tea on the drinker; also, one who drinks spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard.
Drinker moth (Zo["o]l.), a large British moth ( Odonestis potatoria).
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English drincere, agent noun from drink (v.). Specifically of consumers of alcoholic beverages from c.1200.
Wiktionary
n. 1 agent noun of drink; someone or something that drinks. 2 Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages on a regular basis, especially when to an extent that is likely to impair his or her well-being. 3 A device from which animals can drink. 4 (context slang English) pub
WordNet
Wikipedia
Drinker (for Edward Drinker Cope) was a genus of hypsilophodont dinosaur from the late Jurassic period of North America. Although based on good remains, it remains obscure due to a lack of post-naming publications.
Drinker was a genus of hypsilophodont dinosaur from the late Jurassic period of North America.
Drinker may also refer to:
- Drinker (Euthrix potatoria), a species of moth
- A person who drinks alcoholic beverages
- Drinker Biddle & Reath, a law firm
- Drinker House, a building used for student housing at Haverford College
People with the given name Drinker:
- Catherine Ann Drinker Janvier (1841–1922), artist and author, sister of Henry Sturgis Drinker and wife of Thomas Allibone Janvier
- Catherine Drinker Bowen (1897-1973), American biographer, daughter of Henry Sturgis Drinker
- Edward Drinker Cope (1840-1897), American paleontologist and comparative anatomist
- Ernesta Drinker Ballard (1920-2005), American feminist, horticulturist, and Philadelphia community activist
- Henry Sandwith Drinker (1880-1965), American lawyer, ethics scholar, and musicologist; father of Ernesta Drinker Ballard
- Henry Sturgis Drinker (1850-1937), President of Lehigh University from 1905 to 1920; father of Catherine Drinker Bowen, Henry Sandwith Drinker, and Philip Drinker
- Philip Drinker (1894-1972), industrial hygienist
- Sophie Drinker (1888 - 1967), American amateur musician and musicologist. Considered a founder of women's musicological and gender studies. (Wife of Henry Sandwith above.)
Usage examples of "drinker".
The question of alcoholism is not one of the abuse of a good thing, here and there injuring those who take it to excess, but is a national question which affects the entire community, abstainers, and drinkers, men, women and children, present and to come.
Boulevard de la Croisette, other eaters and drinkers had left their restaurants and cafes and were beginning to pack the pavements again.
The pastor and the widow were both sturdy drinkers, and I did my best to please them.
The dynast drank off the liquor, tossing it to the back of his throat and swallowing it immediately, as did all experienced stalagma drinkers.
Leeward, refreshing himself in the drinker, had listened to Brand running off at the mouth about Lanoy and his hopper business.
Gerald went through the push doors into the large, lofty room where the faces and heads of the drinkers showed dimly through the haze of smoke, reflected more dimly, and repeated ad infinitum in the great mirrors on the walls, so that one seemed to enter a vague, dim world of shadowy drinkers humming within an atmosphere of blue tobacco smoke.
Because Chez Matelot was a haven for young people low on funds but high on commitment, the casual drinker in search of a cheap drink or a quick pickup quickly discovered that he was better served elsewhere.
Followers of obsolete unthinkable trades, doodling in Etruscan, addicts of drugs not yet synthesized, black marketeers of World War III, excisors of telepathic sensitivity, osteopaths of the spirit, investigators of infractions denounced by bland paranoid chess players, servers of fragmentary warrants taken down in hebephrenic shorthand charging unspeakable mutilations of the spirit, officials of unconstituted police states, brokers of exquisite dreams and nostalgias tested on the sensitized cells of junk sickness and bartered for raw materials of the will, drinkers of the Heavy Fluid sealed in translucent amber of dreams.
Pascal, who had encountered heavy drinkers many times, and was used to such sudden swerves, made a placatory gesture.
These were the vags, the bums, the wineheads and the wetbrains from the Bowery, the Sneaky Pete drinkers and the Sweet Lucy lovers, the ones who filtered bottles of after-shave lotion down through a loaf of pumpernickel, the ones who drank canned heat and panther sweat, the ones who had left too many pieces of themselves in too many bars for too many years.
Duwan the Drinker, who was dead but now lives, son of Duwan and Sema, Drinkers of the Valley, led into the homeland of my fathers by the wisdom and grace of Du there to be captured and peeled by the enemy and to be returned to the earth in a spirit of irony by the High Mistress of Devourers, Elnice of Arutan.
Not being any kind of a drinker, Melvin got properly snockered after two martinis.
Sam was a random guy, a big restless, reckless lantern-jawed ex-marine, a brawler, a wencher, a two-fisted drinker.
It was best to get the blood drinker into the club, where at least Werm could fade into the crowd.
The normative astronaut was Hickory Lee: quiet, fearfully efficient, solid drinker off duty, quick to anger if his rights were trespassed, and average in almost every other human reaction.