booze
See also: Booze
English
Etymology
Alteration of bowse.
Pronunciation
- enPR: bo͞oz, IPA(key): /buːz/
Audio (AU) (file) - Homophone: boos
- Rhymes: -uːz
Noun
booze (countable and uncountable, plural boozes)
- (colloquial, uncountable) Any alcoholic beverage. (Especially hard liquor.)
- 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, Olympia Press:
- The glutton castaway, the drunkard in the desert, the lecher in prison, they are the happy ones. To hunger, thirst, lust, every day afresh and every day in vain, after the old prog, the old booze, the old whores, that's the nearest we'll ever get to felicity, the new porch and the very latest garden.
- 1995, Al Stewart, "Marion the Chatelaine" on Between the Wars:
- She got caught between the shadows and the booze
- And she surely did know how to have the blues
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- (colloquial, countable, archaic) A session of drinking alcohol; a drinking party.
Synonyms
- grog; see also Thesaurus:alcoholic beverage
Derived terms
- booze artist
- booze bus
- booze can
- booze cruise
- boozehound
- booze jockey
- boozer
- booze up
- booze-up
- boozy
Translations
any alcoholic beverage
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See also
- piss
- plonk
Verb
booze (third-person singular simple present boozes, present participle boozing, simple past and past participle boozed)
- (slang) To drink alcohol.
- We were out all night boozing until we dragged ourselves home hung over.
- 1884, Hugh Reginald Haweis, My Musical Life
- This is better than boozing in public houses.
Translations
slang:to drink alcohol
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