"I thought pilots were supposed to be hard drinkers," she said.

He was a hard drinker and a chain smoker.

Yet it was still afternoon, and there would be few customers at this time, the only ones the hard drinkers, the truly dissolute.

Everyone knows Babe was a hard drinker - you might call him a lone wolf.

Although she won't touch drugs, Siebert has been called a hard drinker.

He had been known as a hard drinker and braw'er for many years.

He is a loafer, a hard drinker, and a sponge.

Bill was a hard drinker, and his father was not immune.

By this time in his career, Bisson gained a reputation as a hard drinker.

Everybody in the story is either a hard drinker or being groomed to be one.