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Noun: "an alcoholic who quits drinking without recovering"
2001, Robert Bensen, editor, Children of the Dragonfly: Native American Voices on Child Custody and Education, →ISBN:They call me a dry-drunk because I never went to treatment. I was sober, but not healed.
2021, Paul Merson, Hooked: Addiction and the Long Road to Recovery, →ISBN:There's being sober and there's being dry. If you're a dry drunk and not doing the meetings there isn't any difference. You're just not drinking.
Noun: "a mental relapse for an alcoholic"
2001, David B. Silva, “Dry Whiskey”, in The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: Third Annual Collection, →ISBN, page 321:But he looked like the man of old this morning, like a man coming out of a stupor […] "Christ, you didn't go on another drunk last night, did you?"
He looked up at me, his lips dry and chapped, his face expressionless. "You know I didn't […] "
"Then what the hell's the matter with you?"
"It's a dry drunk," he whispered hoarsely […]
"It happens sometimes," he said "When you've been drinking as long as I have."
2007, Audrey Borden, quoting "Norma J.", The History of Gay People in Alcoholics Anonymous From the Beginning, →ISBN, page 177:I was in a dry drunk that lasted four years. […] I went back to every old way I had, except for drinking.
Adjective: "feeling drunk without drinking alcohol"
1839, “Scenes with "Uncle Sam."”, in John William "Craven" Carleton, editor, The Sporting Review, A Monthly Chronicle of The Turf, The Chase, 191 Regent Street, London, page 24:[A]n unfortunate fellow passenger, "Whose soul did sicken o'er the heaving wave," was taking a most vigorous turning inside out. […] " […] Blame the sea ! I wish it 'ould keep quiet. This is what I call being dry drunk, all the nuisance and none of the fun."