wino
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 8
- Letters
- 4
/ˈwaɪnəʊ/
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/ˈwaɪnəʊ/ · /ˈwiːnəʊ/
Definition of wino
4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(derogatory)A chronic or heavy drinker of cheap wine or other alcohol; especially, a drunkard.
“My grandmother was a Puerto Rican wino from Spanish Harlem named Migdalia, but everybody called her Mimi. My moms and Aunt Dru were her only kids. Mimi was a tall, light-skinned woman with long wavy hair and high cheekbones. She drank cheap wine and laughed all day long.”
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noun
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(derogatory)A chronic or heavy drinker of cheap wine or other alcohol; especially, a drunkard.
“My grandmother was a Puerto Rican wino from Spanish Harlem named Migdalia, but everybody called her Mimi. My moms and Aunt Dru were her only kids. Mimi was a tall, light-skinned woman with long wavy hair and high cheekbones. She drank cheap wine and laughed all day long.”
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(derogatory, especially)A chronic or heavy drinker of cheap wine or other alcohol; especially, a drunkard.
“Near-synonyms: bum, hobo; see also Thesaurus:vagabond”
“I came out in an alley where a couple of winos were picking through a trash bin.”
- (informal)A wine enthusiast.
- A hypothetical particle that is the superpartner of the W boson.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From wine + -o (“person with characteristic”).
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