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designated driver en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A person who avoids drinking alcohol at a social engagement for the purpose of driving their companions home.
   • I’m his Lyft driver, or, as I have come to think of it, his designated driver on demand. 2020 February 27, Peter Jakubowicz, “The Drunk Men I Drive Around Every Night”, in Slate Magazine:
   • Back in the 1980s, the Harvard School of Public Health mounted a campaign to normalize the idea of a “designated driver” to reduce drunk driving. Jay Winsten of Harvard spent weeks in Hollywood, meeting with 250 executive producers and head writers, asking them to work the concept of a designated driver into their TV scripts. Many agreed. 2014 March 27, Robin Marantz Henig, “Fictional Plotlines and Real Assisted Suicide”, in The Atlantic:

Forms

Deriveds

deso

Synonyms

DD

Translations (5)

fr conducteur désigné (Individual not drinking for the purpose of driving their companions home) · pt piloto da vez (Individual not drinking for the purpose of driving their companions home) · fr bob (Individual not drinking for the purpose of driving their companions home) · nl bob (Individual not drinking for the purpose of driving their companions home) · fi juoppokuski (Individual not drinking for the purpose of driving their companions home)