pisshead

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pisshead

Someone who drinks alcohol too much and too often; a drunk. Primarily heard in UK. Her husband's a total pisshead —hasn't held down a steady job in years. The pub was empty, save for the few pissheads who never went home.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

pisshead

1. n. a wretched and disgusting person. (Rude and derogatory.) How can you even think of going out with a pisshead like Sam?
2. n. a drunkard; a drunken person. (Rude and derogatory.) Some old pisshead in the gutter must have given you that hat.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • elephants
  • half seas over
  • elephant's trunk
  • trunk
  • stinking drunk
  • nurse a drink
  • booze
  • (as) pissed as a newt
  • alchy
  • pifficated
References in periodicals archive
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Ah yes, just exactly where would we be without St Patrick - patron saint of pissheads?
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(19.) The self-labeled "Kiwi Drinker's Bible" proudly claims: "The truth is, we're a nation of pissheads" (Gebbie & McGregor, 1979, p.
The varied meanings of drinking and intoxication - a review
"A very few people think we're just helping 'pissheads and wasters' but we help everyone who needs it, and mostly a lot of very proud people who don't want to be seen as spongers but who are in trouble.
'We help a lot of proud people who don't want to be seen as spongers but who are in trouble' Peter Thomas sees how Racing Welfare's team are transforming the lives of people in need
Let him be an example to young pissheads everywhere.
Bill Borrows: Bingers......1 Whingers..0