booze

[ booz ]
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noun
  1. any alcoholic beverage; whiskey.

  2. a drinking bout or spree.

verb (used without object),boozed, booz·ing.
  1. to drink alcohol, especially to excess: He continued to booze until his health finally gave out.

Idioms about booze

  1. booze it up, to drink heavily and persistently.

Origin of booze

1
1610–20; respelling of bouse2, reflecting one of its pronunciation variants

Other words from booze

  • boozer, noun

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How to use booze in a sentence

  • 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. Kingston
  • As they looked in they saw some sailors boozing in a dirty taproom, and enveloped in tobacco smoke.

    Eric, or Little by Little | Frederic W. Farrar
  • Within 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 Howard
  • Cyril Mast is boozing himself mad; we are trying to sober him down enough to read the service over Bassett.

    The Exiles of Faloo | Barry Pain
  • Theres 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

booze

/ (buːz) informal /


noun
  1. alcoholic drink

  2. a drinking bout or party

verb
  1. (usually intr) to drink (alcohol), esp in excess

Origin of booze

1
C13: from Middle Dutch būsen

Derived forms of booze

  • boozed, adjective
  • boozing, noun

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