drunken driving

drunken driving (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of drunk driving.
   • 1958 July 21, “Miscellany”, in Time, page 84:

     In Wilmington, Del., Ernest H. Carter was fined $550 for drunken driving after he pulled into a brightly illuminated suburban police station, tooted his horn, told a cop he was there for curb service, ordered coffee and a hamburger.

   • 1985 June 3, “Anti-drunk technology”, in Daily Press, 90th year, number 154, page A4:

     Combined with sobriety checkpoints, especially around bars, convenience stores, and other predictable haunts of the booze-cruisers, the new flashlight device could be an important weapon against drunken driving.

   • 2023 April 5, “Man arrested for OWI after Downtown crash”, in Wisconsin State Journal, 184th year, number 125, page A5:

     A man was arrested for drunken driving after a crash Downtown early Saturday morning injured two people, Madison police reported.

• “drunken driving”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “drunk driving”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.: “variants or drunken driving”
• “drunk driving”, in Oxford Learner's Dictionaries: “(also drunken driving)”