Plonk is perhaps Australia's best-known word for alcohol. It originally meant cheap, fortified wine but over time came to mean any cheap alcohol.
Some common street names and nicknames for alcohol include: Booze. Juice. Giggle juice.
6. Tinnies = Cans of Beer. But the Australian slang for beer is amber fluid. Some states call it a pint and at others, it is a schooner.
Aussies use “cheers!” in a number of instances: to say thank you, in celebration, when drinking, and to say hello and goodbye. Get ready to hear “cheers mate!” a lot.
Cooter Brown, sometimes given as Cootie Brown, is a name used in metaphors and similes for drunkenness, mostly in the Southern United States.
Pissed / Pished
However it is probably the most commonly used word in the UK to describe being drunk.
Slang for someone who excessively drinking alcohol includes:
Boozer. Tippler. Drinker. Drunk.
alcoholic, boozer, dipso, dipsomaniac, drunkard, guzzler, lush, souse, wino.
Alternate Synonyms for "social drinker":
tippler; drinker; imbiber; toper; juicer.
Our favourites in the Independent office include 'symbelwlonc' – one of the earliest recorded words for 'drunk' in Old English – as well as 'splifficated' (1906), 'whiffled' (1927), 'pot-shotten' (1629), 'fox-drunk' (1592) and 'in one's cups' (1611).
Words for “drunk”:
legless. off one's face. maggot (really drunk) pissed.
Pregaming (also known as pre-drinking or pre-loading) is the process of getting drunk prior to going out socializing, typically done by college students and young adults in a manner as cost-efficient as possible, with hard liquor and cheap beer consumed while in group.
“Cross-faded” emerges as a commonly known term for effects of using multiple substances. It most often refers to using alcohol and marijuana simultaneously, and second-most to being drunk and high at the same time.
A 'boozer,' 'dip,' 'dipso,' 'swiper' or 'swizzler' was a heavy drinker. To 'swizzle' was to drink. Swizzling too much would make you 'blootered,' or thoroughly intoxicated.
Booze. One of the most well-known and widespread nicknames for alcohol. The term has been discovered in use in England as early as the 14th century and is used today in all corners of the globe.
Interestingly, the word “hangover”is relatively new, it's really only been around since 1900. Prior to that, it was known by several funnier names: morning fog, gallon-distemper, bottle ache, blue-devils, jim-jams, cropsick, black dog and busthead, but the end result is the same – you feel terrible!
And clinicians no longer talk about alcoholics or addicts. The appropriate words are “a person with an alcohol use disorder” or “a person with a drug use disorder.”
Sometimes known as a “weekend” alcoholic or binge drinker, this issue occurs when casual drinking turns into something more – a drinking problem, dependency issue or true alcoholism.
"With larger doses of alcohol, not only can a person lower their inhibitions, but their emotions can also be altered," Glasner explains. This combination of decreased inhibition and increased emotion can create a perfect storm for physical affection.
Nine in 10 adults who drink too much alcohol are not alcoholics or alcohol dependent, according to a new study released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in collaboration with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
cheap drunk (plural cheap drunks) (slang, informal) Someone who is easily intoxicated.