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Recent Examples of wino
To promote their inventory, the staff hosts a free wine tasting, which is paired up with all sorts of cheeses, every Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. On Valentine’s Day, winos will be drinking pink bubbles as the store will be popping open everything from champagne to Cava.
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Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
Feed your wino friend's sense of curiosity with the most popular wine club in the land.
—Jasmine Gomez, Women's Health, 11 Aug. 2023
Some started at The Sweet Factory, then spent the afternoon dipping a hand into the candy bag like a wino with a bottle.
—Rich Cohen, wsj.com, 29 Apr. 2023
These were given suitably stupid names, like selectrons, sneutrinos, squarks, photinos, and my personal (least) favorite, the wino boson.
—Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 27 Jan. 2023
If your uncle is a wino, this is the membership service to set him up with.
—Mark Stock, Men's Health, 15 Dec. 2022
During a 1968 vote-fraud investigation with the Chicago Daily News, Recktenwald went undercover as a Skid Row wino and registered to vote at a succession of flophouses over several weeks.
—Bob Goldsborough, chicagotribune.com, 23 Aug. 2021
The business also hosts events, including wine tastings and wino bingo.
—Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2020
Street punks and winos from the Mission began to show up.
—Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 29 Nov. 2019
Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
Feed your wino friend's sense of curiosity with the most popular wine club in the land.
—Jasmine Gomez, Women's Health, 11 Aug. 2023
Some started at The Sweet Factory, then spent the afternoon dipping a hand into the candy bag like a wino with a bottle.
—Rich Cohen, wsj.com, 29 Apr. 2023
These were given suitably stupid names, like selectrons, sneutrinos, squarks, photinos, and my personal (least) favorite, the wino boson.
—Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 27 Jan. 2023
If your uncle is a wino, this is the membership service to set him up with.
—Mark Stock, Men's Health, 15 Dec. 2022
During a 1968 vote-fraud investigation with the Chicago Daily News, Recktenwald went undercover as a Skid Row wino and registered to vote at a succession of flophouses over several weeks.
—Bob Goldsborough, chicagotribune.com, 23 Aug. 2021
The business also hosts events, including wine tastings and wino bingo.
—Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2020
Street punks and winos from the Mission began to show up.
—Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 29 Nov. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wino
Noun
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Pappas, 43, said Stagliano accused her of being an alcoholic and refused to leave her home on the day of her arrest, records show.—
Anthony Robledo,
USA TODAY,
12 Mar. 2025
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My husband has been a functioning alcoholic for more than 40 years.—
Jeanne Phillips,
The Mercury News,
11 Mar. 2025
Noun
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And then there was the one about him as a bad steward of money raised by the powerful Koch network, a sexist bully, and a drunkard on the job who got canned.—
Philip Elliott,
TIME,
4 Dec. 2024
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First, there was the chest-down, sort of squaring-up motion that drunkards do to bouncers, to be followed by a strike which could not even be conceived of in drunken stupors.—
Simon Johnson,
The Athletic,
30 June 2024
Noun
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Younger generations are opting for healthier choices and drinking less alcohol, and inflation has meant less disposable income among wine drinkers.—
Natasha Chen,
CNN,
21 Mar. 2025
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Yet the news has put a spotlight on American wines, a category long misunderstood by funk-forward natural-wine drinkers like me.—
Jessie Heyman,
Vogue,
20 Mar. 2025
Noun
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One of American drama's most intriguing case studies, Hickey is the hardware salesman who returns to his old tawdry haunt not on one of his periodic benders but on a mission to reform the resident inebriates of their belief in a better tomorrow.—
Charles McNulty,
latimes.com,
10 May 2018
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The group proposed extending the winter shelter through May, boosting treatment for serial inebriates and reporting all homeless incidents and issues to a single coordinator.—
Jeff McDonald,
sandiegouniontribune.com,
1 Oct. 2017
Noun
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Michael Ritchie’s hilarious classic features a cranky boozer (Walter Matthau at his best) coaching a batch of bad-news Little Leaguers, one played by Tatum O’Neal.—
Randy Myers,
The Mercury News,
21 Jan. 2025
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In this romantic wish list of components for the perfect pub, Orwell’s fantasy boozer is frequented by regulars who sit in the same chair night after night, employs chirpy, liver-sausage-sandwich-slinging barmaids, and serves its ale in strawberry-pink china mugs.—
Will Noble,
CNN,
23 Nov. 2024
Noun
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Thrilling game sequences, a terrific ensemble cast led by Geena Davis, Lori Petty and Madonna, plus an all-timer performance from Tom Hanks as their hapless sot of a manager.—
Ben Flanagan | bflanagan@al.com,
al,
8 Apr. 2023
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Fosse, after all, was creating in his own image, whether rendering himself as a satyr, a sot or a snake.—
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
19 Mar. 2023
Noun
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For another Grand Turk specialty, chicken souse served with journey (called johnnycake on other Caribbean islands), Been suggests the deli at the Graceway Grand Turk or the Spot at the JAGS McCartney Airport, which serves the dish on Saturdays.—
Laura Begley Bloom,
AFAR Media,
10 Mar. 2025
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Taste traditional home cooking If fish is for Friday, the traditional Bajan dish of pudding and souse is the staple of Saturday.—
Patrick Scott,
New York Times,
16 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Post Malone, pop’s premier sad-sack boozehound, has returned with F-1 Trillion, his first long-form foray into pure country music.—
Shaad D’Souza,
Pitchfork,
16 Aug. 2024
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Post Malone, pop’s premier sad sack boozehound, makes his first long-form foray into pure country music.—
Shaad D’Souza,
Pitchfork,
16 Aug. 2024
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“Wino.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wino. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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