drunks
SayDRUNGKS/dɹʌŋks/
- 1Plural of drunk.
A pair of drunks stumbled out of the tavern at closing time.
The shelter took in homeless drunks during the coldest winter nights.
Note
Only the noun takes the -s. The adjective never pluralizes, so a crowd of revelers is drunk, not drunks. The plural covers people intoxicated on a single occasion and habitual drinkers alike. It can also count episodes rather than people: two long drunks can be two drinking-bouts. That reading is easy to miss, and context about time rather than company is the clue.
drunks is a form of drunk
drunk, noun: A person who is drunk, or who habitually drinks too much alcohol and is often intoxicated. Full entry
- Forms
- drunkdrunks plural
- Spelling
- drunk → drunks: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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