of, relating to, or of the nature of alcohol.
Pathology. a person suffering from alcoholism.
a person addicted to intoxicating drinks.
“No one set out to be an alcoholic,” Gil told writer Patrick Sisson.
Fireball Cinnamon Whiskey is manufactured by Sazerac, an alcoholic beverage company based in Metairie, La.
I did think you had to end up on skid row if you were an alcoholic.
In St. Vincent, the actor plays a foulmouthed, alcoholic chain smoker with no regard for anyone but himself.
For he judged them to be phantoms (alcoholic in their origin), his scruples of last night.
Full—stoked with alcoholic fuel and cargoed with food, the only question remaining to disturb him was that of shelter and bed.
Except typhus fever, there is no disease in which a due administration of alcoholic stimulants may become more important.
Freise has made use of an alcoholic extract of turnips, and Freudenberg of a similar extract of carrots.
1790, "of or pertaining to alcohol;" see alcohol + -ic. Meaning "caused by drunkenness" is attested by 1872; meaning "habitually drunk" by 1910. Noun sense of "one who is addicted to drinking in excess, chronic drunkard, old rounder" is recorded from 1891; earlier alcoholist (1888). Alcoholics Anonymous founded 1935 in Akron, Ohio, U.S. Alky is first recorded 1844 as a slang shortening of "alcoholic liquor;" 1960 in the sense of "a drunkard."
Related to or resulting from alcohol.
Containing or preserved in alcohol.
A person who drinks alcoholic substances habitually and to excess or who suffers from alcoholism.