People who consume beverages, especially alcoholic drinks, or devices and animals that consume liquid.
From Old English drincan, related to German trinken. The suffix -er creates an agent noun (one who does the action), and -s makes it plural. The root may be onomatopoetic, imitating the sound of drinking.
In the Middle Ages, ale was safer than water because fermentation killed bacteria—so people of all ages literally drank beer for survival, not recreation! Kids had 'small beer' (weak ale), making everyone technically a drinker.
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