1. Stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)
   "a noisy crowd of drunk sailors";
   - intoxicated, inebriated, ripped [informal], gone, inebriate, skunked [informal]
    
2. Elated or emboldened as if under the influence of alcohol
   "drunk with excitement";
   - intoxicated
    
3. Very drunk
   "I had travelling money and got blind drunk in the bar downstairs";
   - besotted [archaic], blind drunk [informal], blotto [informal], crocked [N. Amer, informal], cockeyed [informal], fuddled [informal], loaded [N. Amer, informal], pie-eyed [informal], pissed [Brit, informal], pixilated [informal], plastered [informal], sloshed [informal], smashed [informal], soaked [informal], soused [informal], sozzled [informal], stiff [informal], tight [informal], wet [informal], bombed [informal], three sheets to the wind [informal], off one's face [Brit, informal], pickled [informal], stinko [informal], fried [N. Amer, informal], legless [Brit, informal], blootered [UK, dialect], paralytic [Brit, informal], stewed [informal], liquored up [N. Amer], swacked [N. Amer, informal], steaming [informal], trashed [informal], trolleyed [Brit, informal], bladdered [Brit, informal], mullered [Brit, informal], trollied [Brit, informal], tanked up [informal], screwed [informal], lit up [slang], wasted [informal], out of it [Brit, informal], hammered [informal], blitzed [informal], stonkered [Austral, NZ, informal], juiced [N. Amer, informal], wrecked [Brit, informal], bevvied [Brit, informal], pixillated, half-seas-over [Brit, informal]

1. A person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually
   "The drunk was a regular at the local bar";
   - alcoholic, alky [informal], dipsomaniac, boozer [informal], lush [N. Amer, informal], soaker [informal], souse [informal], alco [Austral], rumpot [N. Amer, informal], tosspot [informal], dipso [informal], winebibber [archaic], alkie [informal], drunkard, rummy, sot, inebriate, wino [informal]
    
2. Someone who is intoxicated
   "The drunk stumbled out of the bar"

1. Take in liquids
   "The children like to drink soda"; "The patient must drink several litres each day";
   - imbibe
    
2. Consume alcohol
   "We were up drinking all night";
   - hit the bottle [informal], booze [informal], fuddle
    
3. Drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic
   "The husband drinks and beats his wife";
   - tope [archaic]
    
4. Propose a toast to
   "Let's drink to the New Year";
   - toast, pledge, salute, wassail [archaic]
    
5. Be fascinated or spell-bound by; pay close attention to
   "The mother drinks in every word of her son on the stage";
   - drink in

Derived forms: drunks, drunkest, drunker

See also: bacchanal, bacchanalian, bacchic, beery, belt down [informal], bibulous, boozy [informal], carousing, doped, drink up, drugged, drunken, excited, geeked [informal], half-cut [Brit, informal], high [informal], hopped-up, mellow [informal], merry [informal], narcotised [Brit], narcotized, orgiastic, sottish, squiffed [informal], squiffy [informal], stoned [informal], tiddly [Brit, informal], tipsy

Type of: absorb, consume, drinker, engross, fete, fête, have, honor [US], honour [Brit, Cdn], imbiber [informal], immerse, ingest, juicer [N. Amer, informal], plunge, reward, soak [informal], sponge [informal], squander, steep, take, take in, toper [literary], ware [archaic], waste

Encyclopedia: Drunk, stoned, brilliant, dead