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booze

[booz]

noun

  1. any alcoholic beverage; whiskey.

  2. a drinking bout or spree.



verb (used without object)

boozed, boozing 
  1. to drink alcohol, especially to excess.

    He continued to booze until his health finally gave out.

booze

/ ː /

noun

  1. alcoholic drink

  2. a drinking bout or party

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

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

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • boozer noun
  • boozed adjective
  • ˈǴdzԲ noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of booze1

1610–20; respelling of bouse 2, reflecting one of its pronunciation variants
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Word History and Origins

Origin of booze1

C13: from Middle Dutch ū
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Idioms and Phrases

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

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Example Sentences

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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