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booze
[booz]
noun
any alcoholic beverage; whiskey.
a drinking bout or spree.
verb (used without object)
to drink alcohol, especially to excess.
He continued to booze until his health finally gave out.
booze
/ ː /
noun
alcoholic drink
a drinking bout or party
verb
(usually intr) to drink (alcohol), esp in excess
Other Word Forms
- boozer noun
- boozed adjective
- ˈǴdzԲ noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of booze1
Idioms and Phrases
booze it up, to drink heavily and persistently.
Example Sentences
When the group went on the road, he went with them and fined his sons if they broke his rules — no booze, no profanity, no fraternizing with women.
So upset that Attila — a Led Zeppelin-inspired metal band, according to the New York Times — broke up and Joel started boozing, which sent him into a tailspin.
Karen’s relationship with her husband Stan is supported by booze and conspicuous consumption; he is absent to the degree that we never entirely see him onscreen.
It’s the first great film to grapple with the brainsick mental strain of enjoying a lovely day — the sun is out, the booze is flowing — while your phone dings with headlines of horrors happening elsewhere.
Pirro was pleased to join an administration full of “Russian assets, booze hounds and people famous for the little baby animals they’ve killed.”
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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