hard drinker

Ruth is a hard drinker who imbibes bottles of gin.

Her first marriage, to a hard drinker and a gambler, lasted a year.

Sonoskus was a daily drinker, but not a particularly hard drinker.

As she climbs to musical comedy stardom in a revival of “Pal Joey” and the national tour of “Call Me Madam,” she yearns to be taken seriously as an actor, but already her reputation as a hard drinker and a difficult collaborator precedes her.

Marlowe’s back again in a dangerous friendship with hard drinker Terry Lennox.