A person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess)

Usage examples of imbiber.

Too much drove the imbiber mad, yet Elric had already quaffed great quantities and showed no ill effects.

Yet others give unnatural strength to the imbiber and some turn men mad.

Intoxicants lock the imbiber in the present, the here and now, without regard for the future, without consideration of the past.

Approaching the idling imbiber, he adopted a wide smile, hoping the man was too far gone to notice Jon-Tom's strange attire.

For Phippie and Ev rather recklessly thought they would take on the mighty imbibers of Eliot House in a sport of which we are clearly the masters.

Actually, one or two of the imbibers might very well know her yet not recognize her in this new style.

Like their counterparts in the Anglers' Rest, these jolly imbibers are never too surprised by anything they hear: even if it is the story of a young man who has fallen in love with a dryad, a building haunted by a poltergeist that smells, or—in the case of "The Better Mousetrap"—an unfortunate soul who has recruited a dragon to get rid of a plague of mice.

There were a few slow imbibers who put up a bit of a fight, and one who had stuck with a bottle of looted sherry put up a spirited last-drop stand until golem Constable Dorfl picked him up bodily and bounced him on his head.