"drink-driver" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: EN-AU ck1 drink-driver.ogg Forms: drink-drivers [plural]
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  1. (chiefly British and Australia) A person who engages in drink-driving. Tags: Australia, British
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  2. (chiefly British and Australia, law) A person who operates a motor vehicle when legally intoxicated. Tags: Australia, British Categories (topical): Law, People Translations (person who operates motor vehicle when drunk): spritbilist [common-gender] (Danish), rattijuoppo (Finnish), conducteur ivre [masculine] (French), conductrice ivre [feminine] (French), condutor bebido [masculine] (Galician), condutora bebida [feminine] (Galician), condutor borracho [masculine] (Galician), condutora borracha [feminine] (Galician), condutor ebrio [masculine] (Galician), condutora ebria [feminine] (Galician), betrunkener Autofahrer [masculine] (German), betrunkene Autofahrerin [feminine] (German), ittas vezető (Hungarian), conductor bebido [masculine] (Spanish), conductora bebida [feminine] (Spanish), conductor borracho [masculine] (Spanish), conductora borracha [feminine] (Spanish), conductor ebrio [masculine] (Spanish), conductora ebria [feminine] (Spanish), rattfyllerist [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-drink-driver-en-noun-wdiZwX8- Disambiguation of People: 42 58 Categories (other): Australian English, British English, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 52 48 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 52 48 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 51 49 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 52 48 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 52 48 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 52 48 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 53 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 51 49 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 52 48 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 52 48 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 52 48 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 52 48 Topics: law Disambiguation of 'person who operates motor vehicle when drunk': 36 64
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: drunk driver [US], drink driver Related terms: drink and drive, drink-driving, drunk driving, DUI, DWI

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.