What does the word alcoholic mean?
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1. Relating to, containing, or produced by alcohol. 2. A person addicted to the use of alcoholic beverages in excess.
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Relating to or containing alcohol-as an alcoholic drink or remedy.
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[ Latin] Containing alcohol; spirituous.
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[ Latin] Producing alcohol as A. fermentation.
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[ Latin] Produced by alcohol or by indulgence in alcoholic beverages; as A. poisoning, A. coma, A. insanity, A. paralysis.
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[ Latin] Affected by alcohol or with alcoholism; as A. subject.
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Usage examples for alcoholic
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And besides, who has the right to cast a stone at a man for snatching a little jollity when he may, be it alcoholic or not? – A Poor Man's House by Stephen Sydney Reynolds
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Here is an extreme example that I have read of what one such reformer taught: 'If a single drop of alcoholic liquor should fall into a well one hundred and fifty feet deep, and if the well should afterwards be filled up and grass grow over it, and a sheep should eat of the grass, then my followers must not partake of that mutton. – Daybreak: A Romance of an Old World by James Cowan
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Arnold is an incurable alcoholic, she said; Dr. Rivedal has pronounced him hopeless. – The Bent Twig by Dorothy Canfield
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