Meaning

4 senses
  1. (colloquial)One who drinks alcohol habitually; a drunkard.

    Säufer, Säuferin, Trinker

    бухарикbuxarik, алкашalkaš

    a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually

  2. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, slang)A public house, pub.

    кабакkabak, шалманšalman

  3. (Africa)A vehicle equipped with tanks for supplying water to remote locations.

  4. (UK, obsolete)A World War II fighter radar detector, fitted to British bombers.

Examples

5 sentences
  1. It's better to be a well-known boozer than an anonymous alcoholic.

    ruЛучше быть известным пьяницей, чем анонимным алкоголиком.

    deLieber ein bekannter Säufer sein als ein anonymer Alkoholiker.

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  2. Sitting in the sleigh of a boozer, you'll sing along his drunken songs.

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  3. You shouldn't confuse your boozer with a bog, even though the former has the latter, and sometimes looks and smells like one.

    deLokal und Lokus sollte man nicht verwechseln, obwohl ersteres letzteren hat und auch manchmal wie einer aussieht und riecht.

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  4. Teaching ESL is usually a gig for losers and boozers.

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  5. What's up, you boozer? Have you had some cough syrup again?

    deNa du alte Spriteule, hast du heute wieder Hustensaft getrunken?

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Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
drunkard:
public house:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
drunkard:

Origin

From booze + -er (agent noun suffix) or (pub) + -er (relational noun suffix).

From booze + -er (agent noun suffix) or (pub) + -er (relational noun suffix).

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Forms

plural: boozers
Singularboozer
Pluralboozers

regular

Synonyms

10 synonyms
public house:pubB1
drunkard:drunkard
water-supply vehicle:bowsertanker
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Relatedbooze

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
boozer — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto