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were alcoholic
noun
A person addicted to alcohol.
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Thirty-one participants were alcoholic, but recent alcohol intake was not recorded.
The investigated samples were alcoholic beverages and unrecorded alcohol products from different countries (n = 257).
There were alcoholic aliens singing David Bowie and grown women playing dogs.
This symbol of female independence generally went for men who were alcoholic, womanizing, married or bisexual.
The researchers also found that homicidal children were much more likely than others to have mothers who had been psychiatrically hospitalized and fathers who were alcoholic.
Drinks businesses are booming in the UK and latest government figures show that the beverages sector contributed £6.3bn to the UK economy in 2011, 82% of which were alcoholic.
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Both parents — now dead — were alcoholics.
Roughly half of those were alcoholics.
"All the great writers were alcoholics".
That's why most of them were alcoholics [laughter].
Half the American winners alone – Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck – were alcoholics.
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