drinker

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drink·er /ˈdrɪŋkə $ -ər/ noun [countableC]

1 MIDRUNKsomeone who regularly drinks alcohol 经常喝酒的人；酗酒者，酒徒

Dave has always been a bit of a drinker.

戴夫一直是个小酒鬼。

He was a heavy drinker (=he drank a lot).

他是个大酒鬼。

2. coffee/wine/champagne etc drinker DFDsomeone who regularly drinks coffee, wine etc 常喝咖啡/葡萄酒/香槟等的人

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coffee/wine/champagne etc drinker• Keep the computer in a clean, vibration-free place away from smokers and coffee drinkers.• Such findings suggest that famous coffee drinkers such as Bach and Kant may have derived little help from their caffeine habits.• The increased healing rate in wine drinkers is consistent with other reports that moderate alcohol intake may be harmless or beneficial.• However, more wine drinkers are consuming Pinot Noir these days, and the biggest reason is sheer pleasure.• A table of coffee drinkers in a Colorado cafe.• If you are a regular coffee drinker, the aroma of freshly brewed coffee really does set the taste buds tingling.• Good news for the champagne drinker?• Founded in 1900, Beaulieu Vineyard is trying to lure younger wine drinkers.

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drinker• He had the watery eyes and swollen nose of a drinker.• Coffee drinkers, have an excuse at last!• To bring the same advantages to earthbound drinkers, Daedalus is inventing a low-pressure pub.• He quickly earned the reputation as a hard drinker and hell-raiser.• In his youth Tom had been a heavy drinker.• But he was not, as Stone contends, a heavy drinker in earlier years.• Paul and Jane were both heavy drinkers and spent most of their time in the local bar.• Although she's a very messy drinker.• He becomes a Pepsi drinker for life.• The vault bar seats approximately 55 persons and is more attractive to the younger drinkers because of its atmosphere and prices.

heavy drinker• Two of three women with adenocarcinoma had accumulated more than 45 pack years each and one was also a heavy drinker.• Her husband was apparently a heavy drinker, and their marriage was deeply unhappy.• Greg's always been a heavy drinker.• In his youth Tom had been a heavy drinker.• Many damaging consequences can result from being a heavy drinker but alcoholism does not come simply from drinking too much.• But he was not, as Stone contends, a heavy drinker in earlier years.• Hispanics are more often heavy drinkers than whites or blacks.• I should know by now that heavy drinkers are awfully fond of high-flown rationalisations for any brief spell of abstinence.• It was crowded with heavy drinkers.

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See also: drink

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