wino
Skid row regular
A wino is a person, typically homeless or destitute, who drinks cheap wine to excess.
The term is dismissive and often contemptuous, reducing a person to their addiction: Some wino was sleeping on the bench.
It evokes skid row imagery—someone clutching a bottle in a paper bag.
Made more resistant
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- muscatelSweet fortified wine
- rotgutPoor-quality spirits
plonk · screw-top · brown-bag · pint · fifth · bottle · dregs · swill
Protected place or structure
- unhousedLacking stable housing
- streetPublic urban roadway
- panhandlingSoliciting money from strangers
- transientTemporary, soon departing
squatter · doorway · cardboard · vagrant · drifter · derelict · down-and-out · dispossessed
Addiction to drinking
- dependenceState of needing another
- withdrawalAct of taking away
- rehabilitationRecovery from injury/addiction
- cravingPowerful urge to have
abuse · tolerance · detoxification · relapse · recovery · intervention · twelve-step · sobriety
fortified
Made more resistant
- ThunderbirdFord's iconic sports coupe
- RippleCryptocurrency payment platform
- muscatelSweet fortified wine
rotgut · plonk · screw-top · brown-bag · pint · fifth · bottle · dregs · swill · hooch
shelter
Protected place or structure
- unhousedLacking stable housing
- streetPublic urban roadway
- panhandlingSoliciting money from strangers
transient · squatter · doorway · cardboard · vagrant · drifter · derelict · down-and-out · dispossessed · marginalized
alcoholism
Addiction to drinking
- dependenceState of needing another
- withdrawalAct of taking away
- rehabilitationRecovery from injury/addiction
craving · abuse · tolerance · detoxification · relapse · recovery · intervention · twelve-step · sobriety · cirrhosis
drunk
Impaired by alcohol
- inebriatedIntoxicated by alcohol
- tipsyMildly intoxicated
- buzzedMildly intoxicated
sloshed · hammered · plastered · sozzled · staggering · slurring · blotto · besotted · soused · pickled
- addictsaddicts, addict, junkies, drug addict, drug addicts
- drinkersdrinker, drinkers, imbiber, imbibers, drunk
- Drinking Slangdrunk, wasted, hammered, plastered, smashed
- homelessnesshomeless, homeless shelters, unhoused, homeless veterans, houseless
winoteetotaler
Complete abstainer from liquor
abstainer · prohibitionist · straight edge · temperance advocate · dry
Respected local leader
socialite · aristocrat · tycoon · homeowner · solid citizen
winoteetotaler
Complete abstainer from liquor
ascetic · puritan · health nut · straight arrow · self-controlled
- red wineFermented dark grape beverage
- white winePale fermented grape beverage
- wine pairingSelecting vintages for dishes
- wine glassStemmed drinking vessel
- age like a fine wineImprove through aging
- bottle of wine