lush
noun/lʌʃ/
/lʌʃ/
(especially North American English, informal)- an alcoholic (= a person who regularly drinks too much alcohol and cannot stop drinking easily, so that it has become an illness)Word Originnoun late 18th cent.: perhaps a humorous use of lush ‘luscious’.
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