hard drinking

There is McAvoy's hard drinking, watery-eyed boss, played by Sam Waterston, who defends the show to the relentlessly commercial, highly nepotistic and unguardedly stupid cable owners.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 23, 2012

All sorts and manners of men love to measure their strength with each other,—swordsmen, swimmers, pedestrians, even hard drinking used to have its duels of rivalry,—gamblers never.

From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Charles James Lever

He was a Whig squire, a plain country gentleman, with enough of culture to love good pictures and the ancient classics, but delighting chiefly in sports and agriculture, hard drinking and politics.

From The Conquest of New France A chronicle of the colonial wars by George McKinnon Wrong

Be it observed also that the hard fighting, hard drinking, boastful hero of Nieblung fame used a "spur hund," just as his representative of Kentucky or Tennessee used a track hound a thousand years later.

From The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 by Theodore Roosevelt

Their faces were flushed as if by hard drinking, and their pimpled noses resembled huge red barnacles.

From Japanese Fairy World Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan by Ozawa