booze
Use Booze in a sentence
noun
1.
any alcoholic beverage; whiskey.
2.
a drinking bout or spree.
verb (used without object)
Idioms 3.
to drink alcohol, especially to excess: He continued to booze until his health finally gave out.
4.
booze it up, to drink heavily and persistently.
Related forms
booz·er, noun
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booze (buːz) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | alcoholic drink |
| 2. | a drinking bout or party |
| —vb | |
| 3. | (usually intr) to drink (alcohol), esp in excess |
| [C13: from Middle Dutch būsen] | |
| boozed | |
| —adj | |
| 'boozing | |
| —n | |
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Booze
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
booze
by 1768 "drink a lot" (v.), variant of 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 recorded by 1821, perhaps 1714; reinforced by name of Philadelphia distiller E.G. Booze. Boozy (1719) 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, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Slang Dictionary
booze definition[buz]
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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Example sentences
Bootleggers smuggled legit booze, but could also get pretty creative in concocting home-brewed liquor.
He maintains that booze was not the making of them and their writing, but rather their undoing.
But according to the survey of several hundred patients, booze and cigarettes didn't seem to increase your risk.
Even rats with low preference for booze drank significantly less after treatment.
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