The phrase "a drinking partner" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to someone with whom you share the activity of drinking, often in a social context.
Example: "After a long week at work, I always look forward to meeting up with my drinking partner for a few beers."
Alternatives: "a drinking buddy" or "a drinking companion".
Henley, a drinking partner of Stevenson, cultivated his reputation as a brute and a rogue.
Pussy was also a drinking partner of Brian O'Nolan Flann O'Brien/Myless na Copaleen), then an Irish Times columnist, and Allen recalled that his father threw big birthday parties on new year's eve, which the boys would watch from the stairs.
He would drop by my house if he needed a ride or a drinking partner (even when I was nine months pregnant).
"It throws up where you're going, where you've been, what you like, what you don't, and it gave me an opportunity to create some new characters in Red Bob and The Ivory Host, who were a man with high blood-pressure desperate for a drinking-partner in a plastic Irish pub in JFK airport, and our very pallid but austere barman".
Is he a Coworker and a Close Drinking Partner?
Among the most acknowledged confounders in the association between maternal alcohol use and offspring outcomes are negative affectivity and maternal psychopathology [such as anxiety, depression and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD ], outgoing personality, marital conflict, presence of a heavy drinking partner, and a generally more disorganized and chaotic lifestyle [ 11, 23– 28].
When Prince Hal takes on his kingship and rejects the self-indulgent character Falstaff, convention of the day called for Prince Hal to change from a jovial drinking partner to an arrogant snob, but Shaw saw the view as simple-minded and contradictory toward Shakespeare's script.
What happens if I get really hammered with a Business Acquaintance and he becomes a Close Drinking Partner?
Among Finnish adults, a typical homicide victim is an adult drinking partner [ 5].
I conducted a few experiments on myself, involving nine cocktails, with the help of a lab assistant (drinking partner) whom I took on undercover visits to both of Conigliaro's London bars.
In his article "Family Law" (Nov. 12), Adam Dawson wrote that a wildcat strike in Oakland at the turn of the century cost John Byrne his job--and the long unemployment turned him into a wastrel and drinking partner of author Jack London.
