bum wine
Bottom-shelf fortified grape
Bum wine is cheap, high-alcohol fortified wine marketed in large bottles—brands like Thunderbird, Night Train, and MD 20/20.
The name reflects its association with heavy drinkers and homeless people who prioritize potency over taste: We used to buy bum wine in high school because it was the cheapest way to get drunk.
Also called street wine.
Poor-quality spirits
- plonkInexpensive wine, informally
- fortifiedMade more resistant
- ThunderbirdFord's iconic sports coupe
- Night TrainAfter-dark rail service
Cisco · low-end · mass-market · bargain · discount · economy · inexpensive · generic
State without hope
- despairTotal absence of hope
- miseryIntense prolonged distress
- hardshipSuffering from difficult circumstances
- struggleLabored effort against resistance
suffering · rock bottom · self-medication · escape · numbness · anguish · distress · bleakness
Impoverished urban district
- panhandlingSoliciting money from strangers
- shelterProtected place or structure
- encampmentTemporary military or refugee settlement
- alleywayNarrow urban passage
vagrant · transient · street life · soup kitchen · rough sleeping · cardboard · unsheltered · park bench
Impaired state from alcohol
- inebriationDrunken state
- stuporSuspended sensibility
- blackoutComplete power loss
- sloshedVery intoxicated
hammered · wasted · plastered · buzzed · tipsiness · slurred · staggering · passed out
State of needing another
- alcoholismAddiction to drinking
- withdrawalAct of taking away
- cravingPowerful urge to have
- relapseReturn to former illness
detox · recovery · sobriety · rehabilitation · tolerance · enabler · intervention · 12-step
rotgut
Poor-quality spirits
- plonkInexpensive wine, informally
- fortifiedMade more resistant
- ThunderbirdFord's iconic sports coupe
Night Train · Cisco · low-end · mass-market · bargain · discount · economy · inexpensive · generic · value
hopelessness
State without hope
- despairTotal absence of hope
- miseryIntense prolonged distress
- hardshipSuffering from difficult circumstances
struggle · suffering · rock bottom · self-medication · escape · numbness · anguish · distress · bleakness · wretchedness
skid row
Impoverished urban district
- panhandlingSoliciting money from strangers
- shelterProtected place or structure
- encampmentTemporary military or refugee settlement
alleyway · vagrant · transient · street life · soup kitchen · rough sleeping · cardboard · unsheltered · park bench · underpass
drunkenness
Impaired state from alcohol
- inebriationDrunken state
- stuporSuspended sensibility
- blackoutComplete power loss
sloshed · hammered · wasted · plastered · buzzed · tipsiness · slurred · staggering · passed out · woozy
dependence
State of needing another
- alcoholismAddiction to drinking
- withdrawalAct of taking away
- cravingPowerful urge to have
relapse · detox · recovery · sobriety · rehabilitation · tolerance · enabler · intervention · 12-step · sponsor