Help a brother out with Swedish Translation

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  1. BlackJackRaider

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    What is the word for "drunk" in Swedish? Specifically, which word would you use to describe someone as a habitual drunk?

    Google translate is suggesting fyllo or fyllerist as nouns. Would one of those or something else work better as a nickname?

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    Fyllo is pretty much the direct translation of drunk or drunkard but you also have words like alkis that's the short version of alcoholic. You also have the lovely term A-lagare (A team) for the bums who spend most of their time sitting on benches getting drunk and argue amongst each other.
     
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    Great! Fyllo is pretty much exactly what I need then. Thanks a lot, Kundvagn.