[ US /ˌæɫkəˈhɑɫɪk/ ]
[ UK /ˌælkəhˈɒlɪk/ ]
NOUN
  1. a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually
ADJECTIVE
  1. characteristic of or containing alcohol
    alcoholic drinks
  2. addicted to alcohol
    alcoholic expatriates in Paris
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How To Use alcoholic In A Sentence

  • Put all the fruit in a saucepan on a gentle heat and add a couple of tablespoons of caster sugar and a slug of something pleasantly alcoholic such as brandy, whisky or even sherry.
  • One of them is the capacity of drinkers to adsorb liqueur without slurring or otherwise noticeably displaying physical manifestations of enjoying alcoholic beverages. What was Althouse drinking?
  • Adjacent to the restaurant is a bar, which is well stocked with an assortment of alcoholic beverages and non-alcoholic drinks.
  • In their place you have to look at using low-joule cordials and soft drinks, plain mineral water and soda water, low fat milk and dry wines or spirits and even then limited to a maximum of two alcoholic drinks a day.
  • There were pistachio nuts and alcoholic beverages and freshly baked cakes.
  • This could explain why chronic alcoholics often need an early morning drink just to get going.
  • When should you have your last alcoholic drink? Times, Sunday Times
  • An alcoholic has been banned from every pub in Basildon after being dealt an anti-social behaviour order.
  • The state makes almost a quarter of each year's wine production into brandy and the aniseed-flavoured spirit raki (like arak) which, drunk with water, is the Turks' favoured alcoholic drink.
  • Drug addicts, alcoholics, bulimics, anorexics, and sex addicts line up to claim social causes of their problems.
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