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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Soaker

Soaker \Soak"er\, n.

  1. One who, or that which, soaks.

  2. A hard drinker. [Slang]
    --South.

Wiktionary
soaker

n. 1 One who, or that which, soaks. 2 A person suffering from alcoholism. 3 A kind of knitted woollen diaper.

WordNet
soaker
  1. n. a heavy rain [syn: downpour, cloudburst, deluge, waterspout, torrent, pelter]

  2. a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually [syn: alcoholic, alky, dipsomaniac, boozer, lush, souse]

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.