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wino

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++wi·no /ˈwaɪnəʊ $ -noʊ/ noun (plural winos) [countable]  informalDRUNK someone who drinks a lot of alcohol and lives on the streets 〔露宿街头的〕醉鬼,酒鬼
Examples from the Corpus
winoAt a corner of the fence, a wino was sullenly pissing on newspapers and old leaves.I ended up hanging with people nobody liked-junkies, winos, potheads, hookers.The square was empty, except for a pair of winos sleeping it off under the statue.An old wino had stopped a young man in his late teens who was carrying a huge sack of groceries.The Skid Row winos, shaky with the bars being closed for election, came out and got their bottles of muscatel.Quinn had passed it many times before, and he was familiar with the winos and vagabonds who hung around the place.The wino leaned and leered at her from behind the cover of the chip man's mighty stomach.The only whites in the area were winos and dealers, and they mostly ended up in the river.
Origin wino (1900-2000) wine
wi·no nounChineseSyllable
alcohol drinks of and a someone Corpus who lot


wino
wino /ˈwaɪnəʊ $ -noʊ/ noun (plural winos) [countable]
 Date: 1900-2000
 Origin: wine
informal someone who drinks a lot of alcohol and lives on the streets


winoBrE /ˈwaɪnəʊ/ 🔊NAmE /ˈwaɪnoʊ/ 🔊 noun (
plural
winos
)
(informal)
a person who drinks a lot of cheap alcohol and who has no home (无家可归的)酒鬼