lushes
Habitual alcohol abusers
Lushes is the plural of lush, meaning habitual heavy drinkers or alcoholics: The bar was full of old lushes by noon.
The word carries mild contempt, suggesting someone who drinks to excess regularly rather than occasionally.
Lushes also serves as the third-person singular of the verb lush, meaning to drink heavily: He lushes every weekend.
People dependent on liquor
- drunkardsHabitual heavy drinkers
- boozersExcessive alcohol consumers
- sotsChronic heavy drinkers
- inebriatesMakes thoroughly intoxicated
tipplers · dipsomaniacs · winos · barflies · heavy drinkers · binge drinkers · soaks · guzzlers
alcoholics
People dependent on liquor
inebriates · tipplers · dipsomaniacs · winos · barflies · heavy drinkers · binge drinkers · soaks · guzzlers · imbibers
guzzles
Drinks fast, eagerly
swills · quaffs · knocks back · downs · slugs · tipples · boozes · imbibes · belts · slurps
flourishes
Prospers or ornamental strokes
grows · burgeons · vegetates · leafs · sprouts · blossoms · ripens · overgrows · jungles · gardens
lushesteetotalers
Those avoiding all alcohol
abstainers · nondrinkers · teetotallers · prohibitionists · dry drunks
- lush farmlandThriving agricultural territory
- lush vegetationDense thriving plant life
- lush pasturesRichly vegetated grazing land
- lush greeneryDense, thriving vegetation
- lush rainforestsDense, wet forest ecosystems
- lush landscapesRichly vegetated natural scenery