Usually means: Compulsive, excessive, uncontrollable urge drinking.
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  1. dipsomania: Merriam-Webster
  2. dipsomania: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dipsomania: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dipsomania: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dipsomania: Vocabulary.com
  6. dipsomania: Wordnik
  7. dipsomania: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dipsomania: Wiktionary
  9. dipsomania: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dipsomania: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dipsomania: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. dipsomania: Dictionary.com
  13. dipsomania: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Dipsomania: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Dipsomania: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. dipsomania: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. dipsomania: Rhymezone
  18. Dipsomania: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. dipsomania: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  20. dipsomania: FreeDictionary.org
  21. dipsomania: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. dipsomania: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. dipsomania: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. dipsomania: Legal dictionary

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Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. dipsomania: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  4. dipsomania: Medical dictionary

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  1. dipsomania: A Word A Day

(Note: See dipsomaniac as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (dipsomania)

noun:  (pathology) Addiction to alcohol.
noun:  Specifically periodic alcoholism, characterized by bouts of heavy drinking rather than continuous indulgence in alcohol.
noun:  (by extension) A strong craving for something.

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