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wino
[ wahy-noh ]
noun
- an indiscriminate drinker of wine or other readily available alcoholic beverages who is frequently intoxicated, especially a derelict who lives on the streets.
wino
/ ˈɲɪəʊ /
noun
- informal.a person who habitually drinks wine as a means of getting drunk
Example Sentences
Furthermore, most who drank did so occasionally, while hardcore winos would switch to dangerous moonshine.
It’s delightfully lacking in nuance, portraying every last French person as a mime or a beret-wearing wino speaking broken, heavily accented French.
Pope’s club set finds him playing “preacher, white dude, ghetto dude, angry sister, the neighborhood wino, as if he were a transmitter hooked up to the private thoughts of a cramped subway car.”
Or the statistics professor who marveled at my stories of my favorite uncle — a wino with sophisticated strategies of betting on Greyhound races — and helped me use formal models to explain his behavior.
"People think you're a wino. It just makes you feel really awful, like, what's the point? It can be really depressing. Sometimes I think about not going out of the door."
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