wino
an indiscriminate drinker of wine or other readily available alcoholic beverages who is frequently intoxicated, especially a derelict who lives on the streets.
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How to use wino in a sentence
Just because she's a woman and I'm a feminist does not make her my favorite wino: woman in name only.
Poll Results: Readers Unimpressed by Palin's Today Show Appearance | Ryan Prior | April 3, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTIf any Americans are watching them they will say, "mucho chico wino," while eating this delicacy of their indolence and filth.
A Soldier in the Philippines | Needom N. FreemanCalvin Full, recovering gradually from the shock of the goad, and still supported by Villa, looked like a Bowery wino.
The Enormous Room | Horace Leonard GoldWe don't pay for doctors every time some wino wants to throw up.
Badge of Infamy | Lester del Rey
British Dictionary definitions for wino
/ (ˈwaɪnəʊ) /
informal a person who habitually drinks wine as a means of getting drunk
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