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booze

  [booz] noun, verb, boozed, booz⋅ing. Informal.
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–noun
1. any alcoholic beverage; whiskey.
2. a drinking bout or spree.
–verb (used without object)
3. to drink alcohol, esp. to excess: He continued to booze until his health finally gave out.
—Idiom
4. booze it up, to drink heavily and persistently.
Origin:
1610–20; resp. of bouse 2 , reflecting one of its pron. variants

Related forms:
boozer, noun
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booze   (bōōz)   
n.  

    1. Hard liquor.

    2. An alcoholic beverage.

  2. A drinking spree.

intr.v.   boozed, booz·ing, booz·es
To drink alcoholic beverages excessively or chronically.

[Alteration of obsolete bouse, from Middle English bousen, to drink to excess, from Middle Dutch būsen.]
booz'er n., booz'i·ly adv., booz'y adj.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
booze [buz]

  1. n.
    beverage alcohol. (Slang since the 1500s.) : I don't care for booze. It makes me sneeze.
  2. in.
    and booze up. to drink alcohol to excess; to go on a bash. : Stop boozing for a minute and listen up, guys. , Let's booze up and watch TV.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

booze 
1768 "drink a lot" (v.), from M.E. bouse (c.1300), from M.Du. busen "to drink heavily," related to M.H.G. bus (intrans.) "to swell, inflate," of unknown origin. The noun is first recorded 1859, reinforced by name of Philadelphia distiller E.G. Booze. Boozy was one of Benjamin Franklin's 225 synonyms for "drunk," published in 1722. In New Zealand from c.WWII, a drinking binge was a boozeroo.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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