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meths drinker

Meaning of "meths drinker" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF METHS DRINKER

mɛθs ˈdrɪŋkə


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF METHS DRINKER

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Meths drinker is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES METHS DRINKER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Denatured alcohol

Denatured alcohol or methylated spirits is ethanol that has additives to make it poisonous, extremely bad tasting, foul smelling or nauseating, to discourage recreational consumption. In some cases it is also dyed. Denatured alcohol is used as a solvent and as fuel for spirit burners and camping stoves. Because of the diversity of industrial uses for denatured alcohol, hundreds of additives and denaturing methods have been used. The main additive has traditionally been 10% methanol, giving rise to the term "methylated spirits". Other typical additives include isopropyl alcohol, acetone, methyl ethyl ketone, methyl isobutyl ketone, and denatonium. Denaturing alcohol does not chemically alter the ethanol molecule. Rather, the ethanol is mixed with other chemicals to form an undrinkable solution. Different additives are used to make it difficult to use distillation or other simple processes to reverse the denaturation. Methanol is commonly used both because its boiling point is close to that of ethanol and because it is toxic. In many countries, it is also required that denatured alcohol be dyed blue or purple with an aniline dye.

Definition of meths drinker in the English dictionary

The definition of meths drinker in the dictionary is a person who drinks methylated spirits.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH METHS DRINKER

blinker · clinker · Dinka · drinker · finca · headshrinker · Inca · klinker · linker · nondrinker · palinka · pinker · prinker · shrinker · sinker · skinker · stinker · thinker · tinker · vinca

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE METHS DRINKER

methomania · methotrexate · methought · methoxide · methoxy · methoxybenzene · methoxychlor · methoxyflurane · methoxyl · meths · Methuselah · methyl · methyl acetate · methyl alcohol · methyl bromide · methyl chloride · methyl chloroform · methyl ethyl ketone · methyl isobutyl ketone · methyl methacrylate

WORDS THAT END LIKE METHS DRINKER

anker · banker · beer drinker · binge drinker · bunker · die-sinker · forethinker · freethinker · hoodwinker · hook, line, and sinker · inker · jinker · plinker · rethinker · social drinker · swinker · tanker · underskinker · winker · wishful thinker

Synonyms and antonyms of meths drinker in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «meths drinker» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF METHS DRINKER

Find out the translation of meths drinker to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of meths drinker from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «meths drinker» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

方法学饮酒者
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

bebedor de alcohol de quemar
570 millions of speakers
en

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meths drinker
510 millions of speakers
hi

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meths पीने वाला
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

meths شارب
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

meths в компаниях изредка
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

meths bebedor
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

মাদার ডাইরেক্টার
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

meths buveur
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Peminum meths
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

meths Trinker
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

変性アルコールを飲む人
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

meths 술꾼
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Meths drinker
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Biết Uống Một meths
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

Meths குடிநீர்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

मादक द्रव्ये
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

Alkollü içecekler
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

meths bevitore
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

denaturatem pijący
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

meths в компаніях зрідка
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

meths băutor
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Meths πότης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

brandspiritus drinker
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

meths drinker
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

meths drikker
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «METHS DRINKER»

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Fantasy: The Best of the Year: 2006 Edition
said Virginia Boote “Somehow you never struck me as a meths drinker, Zebby” “ Nor am I,” said Crawcrustle “Foul stuff It rots the guts and spoils the taste-buds. But I could not find any lighter fluid at this time of night.” He lit a match, then dipped ...
Neil Gaiman, Gene Wolfe, Theodora Goss, 2013
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Chambers Universal Learners' Dictionary
... (attnb) a meths drinker. meticulous |rm'tikjul3s| ad) ( sometimes derog) very careful, almost too careful (about small details): Hi paid meticulous attention to detail; He is not very clever but he is useful in the office because he is so meticulous; ...
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The Phantom Capitalists: The Organization and Control of ...
In one case, according to a long-firm organizer, some fraudsters took a meths drinker from the street, bathed him, dried him out, bought him suits, drilled him with instructions and got him to act as their 'front man'. When they finished with the ...
Michael Levi, 2008
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Drugs and Politics
That is, to take the methylated-spirits drinker as an example, we know very little of him as a person in terms of his individual characteristics, his kin, his way of life, and his attitudes to the world. We know him merely by the label meths-drinker ...
Paul Elliott Rock, 1977
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Shooting the Actor, Or, The Choreography of Confusion
I'm always touched when I see people asleep, people that one perhaps doesn't immediately warm to, a meths drinker, or a thug of some kind, or indeed a policeman or a soldier. Sleepers always look as if they've earned their sleep.' ' Yes, yes ...
Simon Callow, Dušan Makavejev, 1990
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Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).: House of Commons Official ...
In those days that was rather like being called a self-confessed meths drinker, or wife beater, but times have changed, and it seems that we are all monetarists now. The Leader of the House says that he is not, but he must be almost alone.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, 1979
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Tinker Tales: Of Motorcycles and Magic
Pissed the blue serge pants and face the colour of a meths drinker on antabuse. A touch offoam bubbled at the corners of his idiotically smiling lips—totally gonzo! His legs twitched like a dog after dream hares and fly buttons strained behind a ...
Allan Lowson, 2008
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New Poetry Works: A Workbook Anthology
An imagined situation: e.g. The constable in the cop-shop' or The old meths- drinker' or The eyes behind the sunglasses ®DETAIL Do the first six lines give a vivid picture of what the woman looked like? Any false notes7 an exercise in ferocity, ...
Robin Malan, 2007
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Theatre and the State in Twentieth-Century Ireland: ...
... 1981:10)and as probably a meths drinker(Boyd 1981:61). More importantly, political imperatives suchasJoe's commitment toa revolutionary notion of history andhis virulent opposition to theBritish Army areshown as a clouding of judgement ...
Lionel Pilkington, 2002
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Who Was That Woman Anyway?
'He'sa meths drinker,' whispered Jo. 'This is his fourth rehab.' I watched the drinkers clustered around tables onthe pavement outside the Ponsonby Roadcafés, andfelt despondent. They looked as though theywere happy. I hadhadnospiritual ...
Aorewa McLeod, 2013

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «METHS DRINKER»

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Nick Broomfield: on the trail of a serial killer
This guy's just a wino meths drinker.” And they left him there and drove off. At this point Broomfield had recently been expelled from his Quaker ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Mar 15»
2
The Alphabet Library: P is for Predicament by Ronald Hugh Morrieson
In short order Cedric falls in with Mervyn Toebeck, the petty-thieving son of a defunct meths drinker, and his wraith-like pal Fred Haunt, known ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 14»
3
Action needed on super-strength alcohol
... 99p, there is little prospect that we will see the resurgence of the meths drinker should the white ciders ever face a substantial price hike. «Inside Housing, Mar 14»
4
Pope models condom conversation
For a meths drinker the decision to choose to wipe himself out on port instead can represent a huge growth in self respect. In recent years ... «Eureka Street, Nov 10»
5
Chronic meths drinking prompts call for review
“It gives me a buzz and stops me from having seizures,” the meths drinker 3 News spoke to explained. Ms Miller says that meths drinkers find ... «3News, Apr 10»
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