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IMBIBER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess)

Synonyms:

drinker; imbiber; juicer; toper

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("imbiber" is a kind of...):

consumer (a person who uses goods or services)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "imbiber"):

bar fly (a drinker who frequents bars)

ale drinker; beer drinker (someone whose favorite drink is beer or ale)

drunk (someone who is intoxicated)

drunk; drunkard; inebriate; rummy; sot; wino (a chronic drinker)

guzzler (someone who drinks heavily (especially alcoholic beverages))

moderationist (a moderate drinker (as opposed to a total abstainer))

bacchanal; bacchant; drunken reveler; drunken reveller (someone who engages in drinking bouts)

social drinker; tippler (someone who drinks liquor repeatedly in small quantities)

carouser; wassailer (someone who enjoys riotous drinking)

Derivation:

imbibe (take in liquids)

imbibe (take in, also metaphorically)

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