Citations:dry drunk

English citations of dry drunk

Noun: "an alcoholic who quits drinking without recovering"

• 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.

Adjective: "feeling drunk without drinking alcohol"

• 1839, “Scenes with "Uncle Sam."”, in John William "Craven" Carleton, editor, The Sporting Review, A Monthly Chronicle of The Turf, The Chase‎^[3], 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."