dipsomaniac
- n a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually
- Finally, desperate and dipsomaniac, he went voluntarily to a New York State hospital for the insane (Bloomingdale) where he was forcibly kept from drink for nearly a year.
- Her most powerful roles portrayed deeply troubled or doomed women, such as the dipsomaniac in I'll Cry Tomorrow and the bar girl in I Want to Live who is framed on a murder .
- In the villa, matching its decay with his own collapse, lives Geoffrey Firmin, onetime British vice-consul in Quauhnahuac, now a mentally tortured, helpless dipsomaniac.