Breathalyzer
[breth-uh-lahy-zer]
- a brand of breath analyzer.
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Contemporary Examples
She failed several field sobriety tests and a breathalyzer put her blood alcohol level at .11.
The source says a breathalyzer test measured 1.01mg of alcohol per liter of breath Galliano exhaled.
I was put in Central Lockup, given a breathalyzer test which I passed, but I spent the night in jail anyway.
But his license was suspended because he declined a Breathalyzer test.
Word Origin and History for breathalyzer
n.
1960, from breath + (an)alyzer; an earlier name for it was drunkometer (1934).
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