adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a hard-drinking man
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Commanders, R.N., are a notoriously hard-drinking breed, which scotched that suspicion.
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She continued to go out to dinner with academics, to receive the hard-drinking architect.
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That was hard-bitten, hard-nosed, hard-drinking newshound Edgar Allan Poe.
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The customers were mostly farming folk, a hardworking and hard-drinking set of locals who, in general, were convivial and congenial.