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booze

noun
/buːz/

Etymology

Originally a Northern England dialectal form of bowse.

Definitions

  1. Any alcoholic beverage.

    • 1995, Al Stewart, "Marion the Chatelaine" on Between the Wars She got caught between the shadows and the booze And she surely did know how to have the blues
    • In some Canadian provinces […] American booze will be pulled off the shelves indefinitely starting on Tuesday.

  2. A session of drinking alcohol

    A session of drinking alcohol; a drinking party.

  3. To drink alcohol.

    • We were out all night boozing until we dragged ourselves home hung over.
    • This is better than boozing in public houses.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. To drink (an alcoholic beverage).

      • It's worse than kerosene to boose.

    2. A surname.

The neighborhood

Derived

booze artist, booze baron, booze bus, booze can, booze cruise, booze cruising, boozefest, booze fighter, boozehead, boozehound, booze jockey, boozeless, boozer, booze up, booze-up, boozy, outbooze

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for booze. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA