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alky; alkie
noun- an alcoholic US
- I get high drunk, drop money on floor, am panhandled, play Ruth Brown wildjump records among drunken alky whores. — Jack Kerouac, Letter to John Clellon Holmes, p. 338, 8 February 1952
- If these boys don’t play it just right they’re liable to finish their training up in Portland at the alky hospital. — Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, p. 145, 1962
- Jesus, you think we’d miss your wedding? This bunch of alky’s? — The Deer Hunter, 1978
- I guess with wormwood in your drink you’d have to be a closet alky. — Barry Humphries, The Traveller’s Tool, p. 75, 1985
- Juicemen are too smart to lend money to people with habits like booze and skag, though sometimes an alkie or a gow-head in a three-piece suit puts one over on them. — Robert Campbell, Juice, p. 21, 1988
- Awwwww, that dude ain’t no alky. He’s fucked up, but he ain’t no real alky. — Odie Hawkins, Amazing Grace, p. 71, 1993
- You were never an alky, you were a cokehead. — Something About Mary, 1998
- He asks every recovering alkie for money, but hardly anyone gives him any. — Stuart Browne, Dangerous Parking, p. 45, 2000
- alcohol, especially methyl alcohol US, 1844
- Alky Orgy Kills One, Fells 8 — San Francisco Examiner, p. 5, 13 May 1946
- aybe he put alky in the radiator and the chassis is snozzled[.] — • James T. Farrell, Saturday Night, p. 37, 1947
- Long before midnight its habitues have already made sleeping arrangements or are snoring in the alleys, cheap overnight lodgings or hallways, paralyzed by alky or cheap domestic red wine. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 31, 1951
- I dug him up for Big Al, to protect our trucks and the alky we peddled to the coloreds. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Death Wish, p. 222, 1977
- methanol used as fuel for racing cars US
- Why doesn’t everyone use alky? Because it evaporates very fast. If you parked your car in the sun for a few hours, you would be out of fuel! Besides, alky costs twice as much as gasoline. — Ed Radlauer, Drag Racing Pix Dix, p. 5, 1970
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