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Definition of alcoholic noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

alcoholic

noun
 
/ˌælkəˈhɒlɪk/
 
/ˌælkəˈhɑːlɪk/
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  1. a person who regularly drinks too much alcohol and cannot easily stop drinking, so that it has become an illness
    • Howe was turning into an alcoholic because of the stress of his job.
    • I don’t think an alcoholic can dry out without proper medical help.
    see also lushTopics Social issuesc1, Health problemsc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • chronic
    • raging
    • recovering
    • …
    verb + alcoholic
    • become
    alcoholic + verb
    • recover
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