The phrase "alcoholic driver" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a driver who is under the influence of alcohol or has a history of alcohol abuse while driving.
Example: "The police arrested the alcoholic driver after he was found swerving on the highway."
Alternatives: "drunk driver" or "intoxicated driver".
He played an alcoholic truck driver who accidentally runs over and kills a man in "Dushman" (1971), a jealous husband who abandons his pregnant wife in "Aap Ki Kasam" (1974) and a serial killer in "Red Rose" (1980).
Crisscrossing France, Ms. Varda interviews an unemployed, alcoholic truck driver who gleans from economic necessity; a chef who gathers herbs and fruit from the fields around his two-star restaurant; an ecological activist who feels a moral imperative to eat what others throw away, and artists who find inspiration in cast-off materials.
During her first few months as a writer, Jones submitted a variety of sketches, most of them adapted from her act, including one in which Lena Dunham played Jesus' personal assistant, and one about the types of women in a night-club posse (the designated driver, the alcoholic, the slut).
The app Sober Steering was a real refreshment to me, the non-alcoholic one indeed, because its biosensor technology installed in the vehicle identifies the alcohol level in driver's blood.
The news triggers a slow-motion breakdown in Mahmud, and an agonising need to explore his Jewish self, to which end he befriends the only Jew he knows: a clinically depressed, borderline-alcoholic American black cab driver called Lenny, played by Schiff, who tries to teach him how to be Jewish.
In June health officials in Iran warned of rising numbers of alcoholics and drink-drivers.
It transpires that the driver is the alcoholic father of John, a good-looking, responsible teenager, who takes over at the wheel and on arriving at school phones his older brother to come and pick up their dad.
The inquest has heard from various witnesses who have described Paul's dangerous driving as well as those who have confirmed that the driver had imbibed several alcoholic beverages that evening.
Director Gerard Barrett's follow-up to his debut feature Pilgrim Hill is a sparsely composed but devastatingly honest study of a co-dependent relationship between young Dublin taxi driver John Jack Reynorr) and his alcoholic mother Jean Toni Collettee).
With an obese, sedentary, junk-food population -- and millions of smokers, alcoholics, drug abusers, reckless drivers, and neglected children -- we don't have to worry that the average American will live an extra dozen or more years in retirement.
Most drivers know when to refuse an alcoholic drink, but there is a grave danger that it will provide a deadly temptation for those too weak of mind to say "no".
