drinking alone
Unaccompanied bar session
Drinking alone is consuming alcohol without company, often with connotations of unhealthy coping or depression.
Social drinking is considered normal; drinking alone suggests using alcohol for emotional escape rather than conviviality.
She's been drinking alone since the divorce.
The phrase can also describe simple solitude without judgment: I enjoy drinking alone with a good book.
- solitaryExisting alone, apart
- lonelyWanting companionship
- nightcapPre-sleep alcoholic drink
- whiskeyOak-aged grain spirit
- bottleContainer for liquids
glass · melancholy · brooding · introspective · bar · last call · quiet · sadness · quiet desperation · reflection · self-medicating · liquid courage · isolation · cope · numb · unwinding · midnight · kitchen
- addiction signscravings, dependence, withdrawal, compulsion, relapse
- mopingbrooding, sulking, wallowing, pouting, sighing
drinking alonesocial drinking
Moderate drinking in groups
happy hour · cocktail party · after-work drinks · pub crawl · bar hopping
drinking alonecelebratory toast
Spoken honor with drinks
champagne celebration · wedding reception · clinking glasses · birthday party
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