wino
noun
an indiscriminate drinker of wine or other readily available alcoholic beverages who is frequently intoxicated, especially a derelict who lives on the streets.
winos
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pluralof wino.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
