drunk
/dɹʌŋk/ noun B1- One who is intoxicated with alcohol.
- A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.
- A person whose behaviour when drunk tends to be of a specified kind. · He's a talkative drunk; three beers in and he's chattering away about everything.
- A drinking bout; a period of drunkenness.
- A drunken state.
Plural drunks
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“Hold your tongue, you fool!—what should you know about it?—why, you were drunk!”
“I’ve seen many a drunk chap in my time,” he said, “but never anyone so cryin’ drunk as that cove.
“He was an uncommon drunk sort o’ man,” he said.
He had to pretend to be drunk in order to allay the suspicions which might have been aroused by his appearance at the gate.
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