Meanings of alky in English

The fire was contained by water spray from fire cannons that surround the alky unit, Elizondo said.

Something straight out of an alky's DTs.

One of them was an alky?'

The main plot pits grumpy, alky DI Rebus against an alliance of local, Russian and Japanese gangsters intent on a gigantic drugs heist.

The board wants a third-party auditor to determine if alky unit operations at the two refineries conform with practices recommended by the American Petroleum Institute.

Alkies always know the amount a bottle holds-neverenough.

Alkies, you can't save them, they're the Devil's own.

In New York, it's alkies or drug addicts.

I see him down at the square sometimes with the other alkies, but do I know him?

Thought I'd meander up the Hill with this old bloat Alky, and drop in to see the show.

The assembled alkies stared at him, waiting for what longtime sobriety was supposed to convey: experience, strength, and hope.

Alkies can't do booze.

'Well, as I said it was one of Anders's alky pals who found him, Bengt Larsson.

Alone, huddled in bed against the cold, the narrator remembers when, as a child, he saw the alkies return from picking apples in Michigan.

It was the Hill drunkard, Dick Hall, or, as he was called, "Whiskey Dick," or, indicated still more succinctly by the Hill humorists, "Alky Hall."