What is "alkie"

Usage examples of "alkie".

Other's call 'em Dream Beetles, one 'slug in 'ere used ter call 'em Turtlessaid 'e saw a Turtle thing with a head like a screw-top bottle without the cap and booze pouring out, but 'e was a hardcore alkie.

Wade McDade, a young hard-core flask-alkie from Ashland KY, and Doony Glynn, who's still woozy and infirm from some horrendous Workers Comp.

In California convicted drunk drivers are obliged to attend the meetings of temperance societies, ex-alkie fraternities, and so on.

I'm on the kind of underdole they reserve for alkies, screamers and prongs of the road.