Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A place in which to get drunk; a grog-shop or saloon.
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Examples
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Nobody could tolerate this much dry drunkery without having to run back to the sauce.
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Ah, congrats on your first legal drunkery, and best birthday wishes more generally!
What I'm Drinking: White Wine Spritzers Slimbolala 2006
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The answer, to do all the diddies in one dedal, would sound: from pulling himself on his most flavoured canal the huge chest-house of his elders (the Popapreta, and some navico, navvies!) he had flickered up and flinnered down into a drug and drunkery addict, growing megalomane of a loose past.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Apparently any one with nothing else to do could set up a little drunkery or street-stand without government interference.
Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond Harry Alverson Franck 1921
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Nothing with Ramona's drunkery was really resolved, but I'm sure we'll hear plenty about it next week.
Gawker Richard Lawson 2010
hernesheir commented on the word drunkery
grog-shop
December 3, 2010