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.
His uncle was a well-known boozehead who'd been barred from two of the three local pubs but still somehow showed up at family events cheerful and stinking of beer.
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(derogatory, slang) An alcoholic.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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