wino

Pope’s club set finds him playing “preacher, white dude, ghetto dude, angry sister, the neighborhood wino, as if he were a transmitter hooked up to the private thoughts of a cramped subway car.”

Or the statistics professor who marveled at my stories of my favorite uncle — a wino with sophisticated strategies of betting on Greyhound races — and helped me use formal models to explain his behavior.

"People think you're a wino. It just makes you feel really awful, like, what's the point? It can be really depressing. Sometimes I think about not going out of the door."

So one night, Poe found himself venturing past panhandling winos into a club so fetid and grimy his nerves jumped on end.

After their relationship ended, the tattoo was changed to read “wino for ever”, the court heard.