Longman Dictionary English From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishan old soakan old soakDFDDRUNKsomeone who is often drunk – used humorously → soakExamples from the Corpusan old soak• The father's nice enough, but a bit of an old soak and the grandmother was a dragon.• She doesn ` t want to end up an old soak. ldoceonline.com