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Someone who drinks alcohol regularly, sometimes as a way of coping with life's pressures.
means A person who drinks alcohol regularly or habitually, especially as a defining habit or trait.
from Simply 'drink' plus the agent suffix '-er,' which English has used for ages to turn verbs into 'one who does this' nouns (baker, singer, drinker). 'Drink' itself traces back to Old English 'drincan,' part of an old Germanic family of words for swallowing liquid. No hidden story here — just a verb that got a label stuck on its doer.
- tolerance myth
- higher tolerance means more liver damage, not less
- liquid courage
- alcohol doesnt remove fear, just removes memory of it
- social lubricant
- works great until it strips the gears entirely