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Alcoholiday Weekend

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A 1913 New York Times article on portmanteaus includes the word “alcoholiday,” which describes leisure time spent drinking.

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    So everyone has been looking for ways to rationalize...need to obliterate reality with...
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    We’ve always been a country of conflicted, puritanical lushes.
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    Can’t believe this was coined in 1913!
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    AKA every day that ends in a “Y”
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    alcoholiday everyday then
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    Oh I am most definitely
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