Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person who has a compulsion to drink alcohol; a dipsomaniac.
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- noun informal
dipsomaniac
Etymologies
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Examples
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No one should be allowed to escape the wonderful experience that accompanies each stage in the development of the young -- the happy memories of sleepless nights, coughing spells, tantrums, diaper rash, debts, "dipso" baby sitters, saturated mattresses, emergencies and never-ending crises.
Archive 2008-08-01 Not a sheep 2008
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Your racist, dipso, insommiac Anonymouse attacker has lost!
A FEW CHANGES... 2009
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There's Randy Quaid swaggering around as a dipso crop-duster who claims he was once abducted by aliens, and Vivica Fox as Will Smith's girlfriend, a stripper who dances only to support her kid (have we wandered into another summer movie here?).
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At the outset, Owen Browne, ex-navy man turned sailboat salesman, is living the good life in Connecticut with his slightly dipso wife, Anne.
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Perhaps we read all these minds at once, as Vanessa's dipso mother Rosa hears all the world's cell phone conversations simultaneously in her head, at the Brooklyn hospital where she's drying out.
In the Desert, Prime Time Leonard, John 2006
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This one here, he's just a dipso who knows everything.
Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999
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This one here, he's just a dipso who knows everything.
Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999
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BELSIZE: We found her bag in her room; and maniacs can't get far without cash ... however dipso or nympho they may be ....
Night Must Fall : a Play in Three Acts Emlyn Williams 1946
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Solotaroff had the advantage of documenting a dicey bunch: a dipso rock musician, a Wall Street cokehead, a washed-up Broadway producer.
NYT > Home Page By PAMELA PAUL 2010
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I'm pretty sure breakfast smoothies shouldn't be either of those things, and whilst fermented milk might be de rigeur on the steppe or plain, I'm not yet sufficiently dipso to appreciate these things before the morning cuppa. and Daag WINOLJ for being good sports and agreeing to spending lunchtime applauding my balloon making skillz over beer.
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