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soaker
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a heavy rain [syn: downpour , cloudburst , deluge , waterspout , torrent , pelter ] a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually [syn: alcoholic , alky , dipsomaniac , boozer , lush , souse ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Soaker \Soak"er\, n. One who, or that which, soaks. A hard drinker. [Slang] --South.
Usage examples of soaker.
Laundress and Old Mender and Soaker and Chamber-pot Emptier and all the other slaves.
Maggie recognized Old Mender, smiling and cackling, and Soaker, not looking frightened anymore, and Chamber-pot Emptier .
But first I packed Joyce in the truck, and we drove to fetch Mom from her little condo at the foot of Lonsdale - a mock-Tudor space module built a few years ago, equipped with a soaker tub, optical fiber connections to the outer world and a fake wishing well in the courtyard area.
And it is further reported that the old soakers haven't any teeth--wore them out eating gin cocktails and brandy punches.
Much wished myself in the company of some old soakers over roast pigeons and dumplings and sack.