drunk-and-disorderly

1. 1.

   someone arrested on the charge of being drunk and disorderly

   “they delivered the drunk-and-disorderlies to the county jail”

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Questions about drunk-and-disorderly

What does drunk-and-disorderly mean?

drunk-and-disorderly means "someone arrested on the charge of being drunk and disorderly".

How many syllables are in drunk-and-disorderly?

drunk-and-disorderly has 6 syllables and divides as drun-k-and--di-sor-der-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is drunk-and-disorderly a common word?

drunk-and-disorderly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.