"We're ignoring him, hoping he'll go away and stop staring at us with his old alkie eyes."
--from Hacker Cracker: A Journey from the Mean Streets of Brooklyn to the Frontiers, by Ejovi Nuwere with David Chanoff, 2002.

"Now, here, next to him, sat a middle-aged slut with bulging reddened alkie eyes, leering through rotten teeth, just beginning to go to fat in a serious way."
--from "Maggie May" by Lester Bangs, 1981; in Lit Riffs [a collection of short stories by various writers] edited by Matthew Miele, 2004.