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wino

[ wahy-noh ]

noun

Informal: Disparaging and Offensive.
plural winos.
  1. 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

  1. informal.
    a person who habitually drinks wine as a means of getting drunk
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of wino1

An Americanism dating back to 1915–20; wine + -o
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Furthermore, most who drank did so occasionally, while hardcore winos would switch to dangerous moonshine.

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It’s delightfully lacking in nuance, portraying every last French person as a mime or a beret-wearing wino speaking broken, heavily accented French.

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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.”

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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.

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"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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