Noun: boozer boo-zu(r)
Usage: informal
Usage: informal
- A person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually
"The boozer was a regular at the local bar";
- alcoholic, alky [informal], dipsomaniac, lush [N. Amer, informal], soaker [informal], souse [informal], alco [Austral], rumpot [N. Amer, informal], tosspot [informal], dipso [informal], winebibber [archaic], alkie [informal], drunkard, drunk, rummy, sot, inebriate, wino [informal]
- [Brit, informal] A building with a bar that is licensed to sell alcoholic drinks
"the boozer was packed tight"; "The locals gathered at the boozer every Friday evening";
- tavern, tap house [archaic], watering hole [informal], public house [Brit], pub [Brit, Cdn], saloon [Brit], pothouse [archaic], gin mill [N. Amer, informal], taphouse [archaic], inn [Brit], groggery [US, archaic]
Derived forms: boozers
Type of: building, drinker, edifice, imbiber [informal], juicer [N. Amer, informal], soak [informal], sponge [informal], toper [literary]
Encyclopedia: Boozer, John