The phrase "a drunk of a" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone who is habitually drunk or has a drunken demeanor, often in a colloquial or informal context.
Example: "He's a drunk of a man, always stumbling around and slurring his words."
Alternatives: "a heavy drinker" or "a chronic drunkard".
We are thus readied for a conflict that brings in an army of C.I.A. officers, a drunk of a lawyer, Caribbean bankers and assorted criminals and victims.
Based on "Chanda's Secrets," a 2004 novel by the Canadian writer Allan Stratton, and adapted for the screen by Mr. Schmitz and Dennis Foon, the movie throws plenty at her, including a drunk of a stepfather, gossipy neighbors and devastating illness.
The author's mother, Evelyn Ryan, was a small-town Ohio housewife in the nineteen-fifties who lived on the brink of dire poverty, thanks to a brood of ten kids and an ineffectual drunk of a husband.
The year she is brooding on is 1964, when she was twenty-four, living with her drunk of a father in a derelict New England house and working at a prison for boys.
Think of a drunk on a unicycle turning tight circles near the edge of a cliff.
Otis bought the couple a house in Kansas City and helped with their expenses, yet the Earharts — he a dreamer who tinkered with inventions and became a drunk, she a child of privilege, both incurable spendthrifts — still ran out of money.
In the hands of a drunk driver, a car becomes a deadly weapon.
"I am," says his popular MySpace website, "a comic, a drunk, and a lover of losers".
After an awkward sexual encounter, for instance, the female participant "stayed where she was, in the staggered, vertical posture of a drunk hugging a street lamp".
The scene where Barney gradually degrades into a drunk is a parody of the transformation sequence in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
I was never totally convinced by Peter's backstory of being a drunk and a drug addict before being converted to the faith by Bea.
