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stumble-drunk en · ADJ

From stumble + drunk.

So drunk that one is clumsy and stumbling.
- When they came back, stumble-drunk and bruised, drunk enough to piss their own beds, they teased and heckled him. 2015, David Treuer, Prudence: A Novel:
- In fact, patrons remembered the bar owner dragging a stumble-drunk Jefferts into the parking lot,but no one could attest to the exact reason why. 2012, Paul Doiron, Trespasser:
- A day before he'd been stumble-drunk beside a sterile resort pool; now he was having a romantic candlelight dinner with two young twenty-somethings, one of whom was the most perfect girl he'd ever met in his life. 2016, Raymond Avery Bartlett, Sunsets of Tulum:

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From stumble + drunk.

One who is currently or habitually stumble-drunk.
- He was doing a keen enough job so far, one more stumble-drunk knocking down the wide Third Rung thoroughfare, a bit grimier than they generally got up here but not worth noticing twice. 2016, Daniel Polansky, Those Below:
- Also, Mrs. Krause served liquor but had no telerance for stumble-drunks and certainly not mean drunks. 2012, Gilbert Morris, The River Rose, page 34:
- It's not like they're stumble-drunks – they're guys who drink themselves into that weird sobriety. 2011, James Mottram, Sundance Kids: How the Mavericks Took Back Hollywood:

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