wino
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I was like, that’s not going to work for this salty Dublin screaming-screeching wino woman that I’m writing about.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2023
In Poland it's called grzane wino and in Germany it is gluhwein, which both directly translate to mulled wine.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2022
By taking account of a few simple precepts, you can become a "wino" – a charmed, bon mot-slinging sophisticate with entrée into society's most exclusive clubs and factions, for whom dullness is the only impossibility.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 16, 2010
More nights than I care to remember I'd stand there and cry, and then wipe away my tears so that I wouldn't look like a wino on the subway riding uptown.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Hotel de las Palmas, in Jane Bowles’s conspicuously strange novel “Two Serious Ladies,” is a gnatty pension where pimps and winos lie about.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 13, 2014
Will physicists see these gluinos, photinos, squarks and winos?
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2010
A squad of cops disguised as tramps and winos was set up to lure muggers, and high-crime areas were assigned a special force of additional patrolmen.
From Time Magazine Archive
On a block near the Bowery, Glass's brownstone stands near a forbidding Hell's Angels headquarters and a ramshackle men's shelter; panhandling winos, bag ladies and other urban lost souls are part of the cityscape.
From Time Magazine Archive
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