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Drunkard
Answer for the clue "Drunkard ", 7 letters:
tosspot
Alternative clues for the word tosspot
Word definitions for tosspot in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"heavy drinker," 1560s, from toss (v.) + pot (n.1).
Usage examples of tosspot.
Until the pointing out of the cyclists Clive had managed to force himself to enjoy, indeed to revel in, the wild drinkers, the dirt, the litter, the terrible record company tosspots, the whole gritty urban shmeer of north London but the cyclists spoilt it all.
Thereafter he sang as followeth: "Bold bawcocks, brave, bibulous, babbling boys, Tall tosspots, come, temper this tumult and noise.
She was still only a woman with dead arms and a dead husband, cuffed to the posts of this bed like a cur dog chained to a ringbolt and left to die unremarked and unlamented in a dusty back yard while his tosspot master serves thirty days in the country clink for driving without a license and under the influence.
The year-round residents always had to have someone to look at -a tosspot, a welfare slacker, The Kid from a Good Family who had been picked up shoplifting in Portland or Old Orchard Beach .