Definition

1. Noun:
   • A person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually: A derogatory term for someone who is frequently and heavily drunk; a drunkard.
   • A heavy rain: A sudden and very intense period of rainfall; a downpour.

Usage Examples

• Noun (Person):

  • After losing his job, he became a soaker, spending all his money at the bar.
  • The town knew him as a harmless old soaker who slept on park benches.

• Noun (Rain):

  • We were caught in a real soaker without our umbrellas and got completely drenched.
  • The garden needed a good soaker to help the new plants take root.

Advanced Usage

• "A real soaker": An intensifier used to emphasize the severity of a rainstorm.
  • That wasn't just rain; it was a real soaker that flooded the streets.

Variants and Related Words

• Soak (verb): To make something very wet by leaving it in liquid; to absorb liquid.
  • Soak the beans in water overnight.
• Soaking (adjective/noun): Extremely wet; the act of making something wet.
  • We came home soaking after the storm.
• Soaked (adjective): Completely wet.
  • My clothes were soaked through.

Synonyms

• For a person: Drunkard, alcoholic, inebriate, lush, souse.
• For rain: Downpour, deluge, cloudburst, torrent.

Related Phrases

• "Soak it up": To absorb liquid or, figuratively, to enjoy an experience fully.
  • The dry ground quickly soaked up the rain.
  • She sat on the beach, soaking up the sun.

Idioms

• "Soaked to the skin": Completely wet.
  • The soaker left us soaked to the skin.

Noun

1. a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually
2. a heavy rain