alcoholiday
English
Etymology
Blend of alcohol + holiday
Noun
alcoholiday (plural alcoholidays)
- (informal) A period of time during which one deliberately abstains from alcohol.
- 1942, The Rotarian (volume 41, number 3, page 43)
- We often add an admonition to take an alcoholiday.
- 1942, The Rotarian (volume 41, number 3, page 43)
- (informal) A holiday spent drinking alcohol.
- 1920, International Brewers' Journal (volume 56, page 450)
- There will be loss of time and loss of work on this account, and instead of half-holidays there will, too often it is to be feared, be half-alcoholidays.
- 1920, International Brewers' Journal (volume 56, page 450)