social drinker

1. 1.

   someone who drinks liquor repeatedly in small quantities

   Synonymstippler

   Broaderdrinker

Questions about social drinker

What does social drinker mean?

social drinker means "someone who drinks liquor repeatedly in small quantities".

What is another word for social drinker?

Close synonyms include tippler. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is social drinker a common word?

social drinker 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.