drink-driving

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drink-driving

noun drink driving

  1. Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, uncountable Operation of a motor vehicle after recently consuming an alcoholic beverage. A man has been arrested in Huoshan county near Luan for drink-driving after he rang up the police by mistake and then challenged an officer to a fight,[…]
  2. Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, uncountable A criminal offence committed by a person who operates a vehicle when the measured amount of alcohol in his or her blood exceeds the legal limit. A reformed alcoholic with an “appalling” history of drink-driving between three and five times the legal limit was jailed yesterday.

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@misc{drink_driving_2026,
  title = {drink-driving},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/drink-driving},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}