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n. One who is habitually drunk.

n. A person who is habitually drunk.

n. One who habitually drinks strong liquors immoderately; one whose habit it is to get drunk; a toper; a sot.

n. One given to an excessive use of strong drink; a person who is habitually or frequently drunk; an inebriate.

n. [plural] The marsh-marigold.

n. [plural] The wintergreen or checkerberry, Gaultheria procumbens.

n. a chronic drinker

"My own reaction was, the protective reaction of the son whose father, the chronic drunkard, is first espied unsteady on his feet by someone from whom one has greatly cared to conceal the fact."

abstain    pioneer    teetotal    temperance    on the wagon   

toper    imbiber    drinker    juicer   

drunkard's cloak   

drunken    drunk   

boozer    alky    lush    dipsomaniac    souse    soaker    alcoholic   

toper    sot    drinker    inebriate    lushington    bloat    dipsomaniac    bum    pisshead    alcoholic   

hunkered   

gambler    liar    vagabond    libertine    thief    debauchee    idler    bully    ruffian    beggar