booze artist

(colloquial) One who drinks alcohol habitually; a drunkard.

(slang) A drunkard.

(slang, dated) A habitual drunkard.

(slang, intransitive) To drink alcohol.

Informal slang, used primarily in Australian and British English, for a heavy drinker or alcoholic. A boozehead is someone who drinks too much, too often — the person at every gathering who's already had too many before the event properly starts. The word is blunt and not particularly sympathetic, though it's often used with weary affection rather than genuine hostility. It belongs to a long tradition of booze-related insult words in Australian slang, where the drinking culture and the language around it are both very well developed.