Booze

//buːz// name, noun, verb, slang

name, noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Any alcoholic beverage. colloquial, uncountable

    "The glutton castaway, the drunkard in the desert, the lecher in prison, they are the happy ones. To hunger, thirst, lust, every day afresh and every day in vain, after the old prog, the old booze, the old whores, that's the nearest we'll ever get to felicity, the new porch and the very latest garden."

  2. 2
    an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented wordnet
  3. 3
    Any alcoholic beverage.; Any hard liquor. colloquial, sometimes, specifically, uncountable
  4. 4
    A session of drinking alcohol; a drinking party. archaic, colloquial, countable
Verb
  1. 1
    To drink alcohol. intransitive, slang

    "We were out all night boozing until we dragged ourselves home hung over."

  2. 2
    consume alcohol wordnet
  3. 3
    To drink (an alcoholic beverage). slang, transitive

    "It's worse than kerosene to boose."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

Synonyms

All synonyms
drinkgrogliquoradult beveragealcoholalcoholic beverage

Example

More examples

"He pissed away his inheritance on booze and loose women."

Etymology

Originally a Northern England dialectal form of bowse.

Related phrases

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