wine dot
noun Australian informal
A habitual drinker of cheap wine or other alcohol: there’d always be wine dots drinking themselves to death on the steps of the pub...
- He, who was his mother's darling, disintegrated into a wrinkled wild-eyed ruin — a wine-dot, a dirty alcoholic.
- We was brought up by a wine dot and an ol' man who never noticed we was alive.
- I'm a bit of a wine dot, I love a good red.
Origin
1930s: perhaps rhyming slang for sot.