drunk driver

noun

variants or drunken driver

chiefly US

: a person who drives a vehicle while drunk

He was killed by a drunk driver.

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Crossley sustained a neck and back injury in 2007 after being hit by a drunk driver, and then a brain injury in 2008 as a pedestrian in a hit-and-run, according to her official Team USA profile. —

Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 30 Aug. 2024 The episode, which was reportedly filmed on Feb. 16, found John bestowing some grandfatherly advice upon Tate (Leo Howard), who was still feeling guilty about accidentally telling Holly that Eric was the drunk driver responsible for her biological father’s death. —

Andy Swift, TVLine, 30 Sep. 2024 Columbus Blue Jackets star Johnny Gaudreau killed after being hit by alleged drunk driver: Police Their first child, daughter Noa Harper Gaudreau, was born Sept. 30, 2022. —

Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 9 Sep. 2024 In June 2019, my teenage niece and nephew, Ruby and Hart Campbell, were killed by a drunk driver going 90 miles an hour near the desert town of Joshua Tree, 133 miles east of Los Angeles. —

Betsy Lerner, Vogue, 1 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for drunk driver