Carousing
adj, noun, verb ·3 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 carousal
"the wild carousings of drunken revellers"
- 1 present participle and gerund of carouse form-of, gerund, participle, present
- 1 Engaged in or associated with the act of carousing.
"I remember I was once of a party of between twenty and thirty officers, from a squadron of four or five line-of-battle ships, and some smaller vessels, which met together at a tavern at St. Pierre's, Martinico, when a carousing scene took place, so characteristically unique, that it would require the pen of Scott, or the pencil of Cruikshank , to do it justice."
- 1 used of riotously drunken merrymaking wordnet
Example
More examples"Across the country, from small towns to large, complaints have risen about the after-dark carousing by young and drunk post-pandemic revelers. Newspapers have nicknamed the phenomena malamovida, or bad nightlife."
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