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dry drunk
noun
a person who behaves like an alcoholic even though they are abstaining from drinking US
A term used in twelve-step recovery programmes such as Alcoholics Anonymous.- — Christopher Cavanaugh, AA to Z: Addictionary of the 12-Step Culture, p. 82, 1998
- Whether George W. Bush is or was an alcoholic is not the point here. I am taking him at his word that he stopped what he termed “heavy drinking” in 1986, at age 40. The point here is that, based on Bush’s recent behavior, he could very well be a “dry drunk”. — American Politics Journal, 23 September 2002
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