'Now they want to hold him for drunk-and-disorderly. From Wordnik.com. [Gorky Park]
'Anyway, he's being held for drunk-and-disorderly,' the attorney said. From Wordnik.com. [Gorky Park]
Then you're going to be thrown in the tank for drunk-and-disorderly and resisting arrest. From Wordnik.com. [Discourse.net: UM Opens a New Online Store] Reference
A few traffic warrants, a drunk-and-disorderly, participation in a couple of bar fightsmpretty clean for an itinerant cowboy. From Wordnik.com. [Texas Lawman]
I've run into pesky "covenants of silence" many times in my research, but usually they have more to do with illegitimate children or drunk-and-disorderly convictions than with "special powers.". From Wordnik.com. ['The Covenant' Discloses Colonial Cover-Up] Reference
Beyond the three of them, the Change leader in Boston had a record as well, for drunk driving and drunk-and-disorderly, and one of the Japanese leaders had a history of "political crimes," whatever that might be. From Wordnik.com. [A Darker Place]
I suspect the Friday night chaos the BBC loves to show us has more to do with the scandalous fact that thenumber prosecuted for being drunk-and-disorderly has collapsed from 30,700 prosecutions to 16,400 each year between 2000 and 2006 as police chased other targets – and started imposing these daft £40 fines instead of taking people to the cells. From Wordnik.com. [A line of cocaine is now cheaper than half a pint of cider] Reference
"But they turned up -- for a drunk-and-disorderly at Mardi Gras, no less", and Cage, 47, was taken home. From Wordnik.com. [chicagotribune.com - News] Reference
United are desperate to move on from the second drink-related incident involving one of their players, after striker Gary Madine was fined for being drunk-and-disorderly last week. From Wordnik.com. [News round-up] Reference
Then the old messmate to whom I had said good-bye at this very hour just a week before, came and held me by the right arm, while I begged him like a drunk-and-disorderly to let me go and find Ned Ferry. From Wordnik.com. [The Cavalier] Reference
Even the all too common drunk-and-disorderly cases had a flavour of their own, for one man, being dismissed with a small fine under condition that he would sign the pledge, assented willingly; but on being asked for how long he would take it, replied, 'I mostly take it for life, your worship.'. From Wordnik.com. [Penelope's Irish Experiences] Reference
After I read this I really really wanted a drink: - "Of America's seven Nobel laureates, five were lushes-to whom we can add an equally drunk-and-disorderly line of Brits: Dylan Thomas, Malcolm Lowry, Brendan Behan, Patrick Hamilton, Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis, all doing the conga to (in most cases) an early grave. From Wordnik.com. [Hrag Vartanian] Reference
'On a drunk-and-disorderly?'. From Wordnik.com. [Gorky Park]
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