[
US
/ˌæɫkəˈhɑɫɪk/
]
[ UK /ˌælkəhˈɒlɪk/ ]
[ UK /ˌælkəhˈɒlɪk/ ]
NOUN
- a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually
ADJECTIVE
-
characteristic of or containing alcohol
alcoholic drinks -
addicted to alcohol
alcoholic expatriates in Paris
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.