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In some senses, alcoholiday is marked as informal, humorous, rare. Watch for register when choosing this word.
ADJ.
long, younger
VERB + ALCOHOLIDAY
became, takes
PREP.
on
ADV.
occasionally
noun
A holiday or leisure time spent drinking alcohol.
[N]ow you see we are out on a frolic, a spree,—on an alcoholiday. See it?
Before the American adventure Oscar [Wilde] had dealt indulgently with Willie [Wilde]'s weakness: "Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday." But when his life became one long alcoholiday his younger brother, who hated to see people dirty, drunken and disreputable, ceased to be indulgent. "He sponges on everyone but himself," was Oscar's caustic summary.
A period of time during which one intentionally abstains from drinking alcohol.
For skin disorders, we sometimes fix the diet by ordering the patient off the Seven Deadly C's—cocktails, coffee, chocolate, condiments, carbohydrates, cigarettes, and cheese. We often add an admonition to take an alcoholiday.
[N]ow you see we are out on a frolic, a spree,—on an alcoholiday. See it?
WiktionaryBefore the American adventure Oscar [Wilde] had dealt indulgently with Willie [Wilde]'s weakness: "Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday." But when his life became one long alcoholiday his younger
WiktionaryIn a short story that I have recently read, one of the characters, a "sport," speaks of the Christmas season as the alcoholidays.
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In some senses, alcoholiday is marked as informal, humorous, rare. Watch for register when choosing this word.