drunken driving

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English

Noun

drunken driving (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of drunk driving.
    • 1958 July 21, “Miscellany”, in Time, page 84:
      In Wilmington, Del., Ernest H. Carter was fined $550 for drunken driving after he pulled into a brightly illuminated suburban police station, tooted his horn, told a cop he was there for curb service, ordered coffee and a hamburger.
    • 1985 June 3, “Anti-drunk technology”, in Daily Press, 90th year, number 154, page A4:
      Combined with sobriety checkpoints, especially around bars, convenience stores, and other predictable haunts of the booze-cruisers, the new flashlight device could be an important weapon against drunken driving.
    • 2023 April 5, “Man arrested for OWI after Downtown crash”, in Wisconsin State Journal, 184th year, number 125, page A5:
      A man was arrested for drunken driving after a crash Downtown early Saturday morning injured two people, Madison police reported.

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