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Booze

//buːz// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Originally a Northern England dialectal form of bowse.

Etymology 2

Originally a Northern England dialectal form of bowse.

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