carousing

[ kuh-rou-zing ]
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noun
  1. the act or habit of engaging in drunken revelry: I’ve been having a slow morning mentally—maybe from all that carousing at the pub last night.

adjective
  1. engaging in drunken revelry: He joked about a family wedding he had attended over the weekend, and some of the carousing relatives he’d seen there.

Origin of carousing

1
First recorded in 1580–90; carouse + -ing1 for the noun; carouse + -ing2 for the adjective

Other words from carousing

  • ca·rous·ing·ly, adverb
  • un·ca·rous·ing, adjective

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