Citations:dry drunk

English citations of dry drunk

2001, Robert Bensen, editor, Children of the Dragonfly: Native American Voices on Child Custody and Education‎^[1], →ISBN:
They call me a dry-drunk because I never went to treatment. I was sober, but not healed.
2021, Paul Merson, Hooked: Addiction and the Long Road to Recovery‎^[2], →ISBN:
There's being sober and there's being dry. If you're a dry drunk and not doing the meetings there isn't any difference. You're just not drinking.

2001, David B. Silva, “Dry Whiskey”, in The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: Third Annual Collection‎^[3], →ISBN, page 321:
But he looked like the man of old this morning, like a man coming out of a stupor […] "Christ, you didn't go on another drunk last night, did you?"
He looked up at me, his lips dry and chapped, his face expressionless. "You know I didn't […] "
"Then what the hell's the matter with you?"
"It's a dry drunk," he whispered hoarsely […]
"It happens sometimes," he said "When you've been drinking as long as I have."
2007, Audrey Borden, quoting "Norma J.", The History of Gay People in Alcoholics Anonymous From the Beginning‎^[4], →ISBN, page 177:
I was in a dry drunk that lasted four years. […] I went back to every old way I had, except for drinking.

1839, “Scenes with "Uncle Sam."”, in John William "Craven" Carleton, editor, The Sporting Review, A Monthly Chronicle of The Turf, The Chase‎^[5], 191 Regent Street, London, page 24:
[A]n unfortunate fellow passenger, "Whose soul did sicken o'er the heaving wave," was taking a most vigorous turning inside out. […] " […] Blame the sea ! I wish it 'ould keep quiet. This is what I call being dry drunk, all the nuisance and none of the fun."