One with a morbid paroxysmal craving for alcohol; an alcoholic.(noun)
A persistently drunken person; a drunkard.(noun)
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Use "dipsomaniac" in a sentence
"A self-indulgent rather unsocial habit-forming man may very easily become what is called a dipsomaniac, no doubt, but that is not the same thing as an inherited specific craving."
"She has played incestuous mothers and hardcore depressives and dipsomaniac good-time girls."
"In the first place, I am convinced that not one man in ten thousand or in a hundred thousand is a genuine, chemical dipsomaniac."