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    IMBIBER

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess)play

    Synonyms:

    drinker; imbiber; juicer; toper

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting people

    Hypernyms ("imbiber" is a kind of...):

    consumer (a person who uses goods or services)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "imbiber"):

    bar fly (a drinker who frequents bars)

    ale drinker; beer drinker (someone whose favorite drink is beer or ale)

    drunk (someone who is intoxicated)

    drunk; drunkard; inebriate; rummy; sot; wino (a chronic drinker)

    guzzler (someone who drinks heavily (especially alcoholic beverages))

    moderationist (a moderate drinker (as opposed to a total abstainer))

    bacchanal; bacchant; drunken reveler; drunken reveller (someone who engages in drinking bouts)

    social drinker; tippler (someone who drinks liquor repeatedly in small quantities)

    carouser; wassailer (someone who enjoys riotous drinking)

    Derivation:

    imbibe (take in liquids)

    imbibe (take in, also metaphorically)

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