booze
any alcoholic beverage; whiskey.
a drinking bout or spree.
to drink alcohol, especially to excess: He continued to booze until his health finally gave out.
Idioms about booze
booze it up, to drink heavily and persistently.
Origin of booze
1Other words from booze
- boozer, noun
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How to use booze in a sentence
Was there a lot of boozing hell-raising to get into character?
Anna Kendrick on ‘Pitch Perfect 2,’ Drunken Horror Stories, and Singin’ Pharrell | Marlow Stern | July 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWe go off boozing a couple of times a summer, go to some fancy restaurant fifty miles away.
Pete Dexter’s Indelible Portrait of Author Norman Maclean | Pete Dexter | March 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe put most of the wages he earned teaching English towards constant boozing.
Exploring the Darker Side of James Joyce’s Trieste | Jeff Campagna | January 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAfter showing Jay Leno her favorite boozing gadgets, Kathie Lee Gifford gave the host a smooch.
Mitchell especially disdained women artists, talented or not, whom she deemed insufficiently macho, boozing, and brawling.
As for those boozing fellows up there in the corner, they have deceived and cheated us, that is very evident.
Digby Heathcote | W.H.G. KingstonAs they looked in they saw some sailors boozing in a dirty taproom, and enveloped in tobacco smoke.
Eric, or Little by Little | Frederic W. FarrarWithin half a minute a little squad of men dashed out of the "boozing ken" to rescue him who had given this signal.
Shadow, the Mysterious Detective | Police Captain HowardCyril Mast is boozing himself mad; we are trying to sober him down enough to read the service over Bassett.
The Exiles of Faloo | Barry PainTheres Flint Jackson, his deaf old woman, and the young people lodging with him, all drinking and boozing away at yon alehouse.
Recollections of a Policeman | William Russell (aka Thomas Waters)
British Dictionary definitions for booze
/ (buːz) informal /
alcoholic drink
a drinking bout or party
(usually intr) to drink (alcohol), esp in excess
Origin of booze
1Derived forms of booze
- boozed, adjective
- boozing, noun
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